Assertion: punishment | /r/HasProperty | unjust
Facets:
value: least sometimes
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The punishments that the government has inflicted on the protesters are severe and unjust.
text: It is helpful in assessing various candidate justifications of punishment to keep in mind the reasons why punishment needs to be justified.
text: While philosophers almost all agree that punishment is at least sometimes justifiable, they offer various accounts of how it is to be justified as well as what the infliction of punishment is designed to protect – rights, personal autonomy and private property, a political constitution, or the democratic process, for instance.
text: Importantly though, the Court has noted that it will not ignore its own judgment as to whether a punishment is reasonable.
text: If another available option would produce a greater balance of happiness over unhappiness, then that option should be chosen and punishment is unjustified.
text: Concepts of desert and justice occupy a central place in most retributive theories: in accordance with the demands of justice, wrongdoers are thought to deserve to suffer, so punishment is justified on the grounds that it gives to wrongdoers what they deserve.
text: During most of the 19th and 20th centuries, individuals who broke the law were viewed as the product of social conditions, and accordingly punishment was considered justified only insofar as (1) it protected society by acting as a deterrent or by temporarily or permanently removing one who has injured it or (2) it aimed at the moral or social regeneration of the criminal.
text: If the member considers the punishment to be unjust or to be disproportionate to the misconduct committed, he or she may appeal the NJP to a higher authority.
text: If the member considers the punishment to be unjust or to be disproportionate to the misconduct committed, he or she may appeal the NJP to a higher authority.
text: After all, sentencing a hardened criminal to life in prison may diminish or harm his future life prospects, but it would be ridiculous to say that his punishment is therefore unjust.
text: There are only two grounds for appeal: the punishment was unjust, or the punishment was disproportionate to the offense committed.
text: If punishing an offender would most likely produce the greatest balance of happiness over unhappiness compared with the other available options (not taking any action, publicly denouncing the offender, etc.), then the punishment is justified.
text: Punishment, therefore, cab be justified only in so far as it either protects society by removing temporarily or permanently one who has injured it or acting as a deterrent, or when it aims at the moral regeneration of the criminal.
text: that punishment is only justified when it has some use
text: When attempting to determine whether a punishment is justifiable, utilitarians will attempt to anticipate the likely consequences of carrying out the punishment.
text: Public shaming can result in negative psychological effects and devastating consequences, regardless of the punishment being justifiable or not.