Justice and Punishment: Exploring Chasms and Connections
\nRC31 Political Philosophy\, IPSA World Congress\, July 24\, 1pm\, Montreal\, Canada\, Palais des Congrè\;s\, Room 513a
\n\nContemporary theories of punishment and theories of justice largely belong to two distinct academic sub-fields. Apart from some notable exceptions\, few theorists of punishment \;ever address the question of justice systematically and most theorists of justice concentrate exclusively on matters of distributive justice\, thus leaving penal coercion to one side. This scholarly divide is unsatisfactory for a variety of reasons. Most particularly\, it fails to capture some of the most salient aspects of the practice of state punishment. We \;currently speak of courts of justice\, justice departments and \;about the correctional justice system. Moreover\, claims or complaints about \;the criminal justice system are often expressed \;in terms of justice and injustice\, while the normative \;import of these allegations remains relatively indistinct. \;
\nDifferent conceptions of justice are in contention: \;retributive\, restorative\, distributive\, corrective\, procedural\, and so on. Moreover\, different legal traditions point to \;potentially incompatible means of legitimating punishment. There is need to reflect anew on possible ways of justly grounding state punishment. Contributions to this panel will raise two key questions. \;First\, how apt is it to think \;about punishment in terms of justice at all? \;Second\, how great a \;match or mismatch \;is \;there \;between broad concepts of justice and justifiable or objectionable forms of punishment?
\n\nconvenor/chair
\nandrei poama (sciences po)
\n\nspeakers
\nallan beever (university of south australia):
\ncrime and commutative justice
\nvincent chiao (university of toronto):
\ntwo conceptions of the criminal law
\nambrose lee (oxford university):
\nwhat do the punishments that offenders are said to deserve have anything to do with justice?
\nmatt matravers (university of york):
\njustice and punishment revisited
\ntommie shelby (harvard university):
\npunishment\, condemnation and social Injustice
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