Punishment and Repentance

Repentance and the Liberal State

The article defends four broad theses: that repentance is the intrinsically appropriate response to moral wrongdoing (Part II); that legal punishment may seek to facilitate repentance and, when repentance is in evidence prior to the completion of a justified punishment, that it can be a legitimate ground for the merciful reduction of the offender’s sentence (Part III); that according repentance...

Repentance and Conflict in the Parable of the Lost Son

The theme of the parables of the Lost Sheep and Lost Coin continue in the parable of the Lost Son, though now we have a longer, more personal story with three main characters. In this parable, the younger of two sons becomes unsettled with life on the family estate and requests his share of the inheritance, only to squander it recklessly in a foreign land. Upon his return home he is welcomed an...

Penalties and sex reassignment surgery (SRS) after a punishment crime

One of important subject and discussion issue in medical sciences that caused occurrence of new legal and jurisprudence issues in the society, is sex reassignment surgery (SRS). Although in the past, these discussions have been existed more or less, nowadays due to technological progress and medical science achievements, new aspects of this subject have emerged. Despite different views concerni...

Crime and Uncertain Punishment

Crime and Uncertain Punishment We consider agents in a country in an early stage of transition from a planned to a market economy. As the transition is in progress, the nature of the government’s policies are unknown to the agents. Property rights once held by the state have already been transferred to the agents, with each agent owning one firm. However, the agents are uncertain of the level o...

Crime and Punishment