Hegel on Crime and Punishment

Peter J. Steinberger

American Political Science Review, 1983, vol. 77, issue 4, 858-870

Abstract: Hegel's theory of crime and punishment is tested by raising against it three difficult questions: Why must we punish the criminal? Must the punishment fit the crime? Is insanity an acceptable defense? It is argued that a Hegelian approach can generate plausible answers to these questions, answers that help to explain and justify a number of our own morally implicated practices. It is further argued that Hegel's method of arriving at such answers is by no means alien to those employed by contemporary analytic philosophers.

Date: 1983
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