… of punishment: The definition of a punishment is not operationally simple, but some of its
attributes are clear. A punishment is a … It is at this point that we should look at the experiments …

… is that while punishing a man and punishing him justly, it is … of affairs is better than it would
be with the just punishment … If it is said that every such reform lessens a man's punishment…

… punished is his utilitarian and it is also immora offender's victims to compen protection. A less
extreme i should never treat offender punishment … It is not, as some retributivist punish the …

… considerations,4, 5 namely that punishment is justified because it provides retribution—ie,
just … This basis for legal punishment has intuitive appeal for some theorists, but it is also …

… it is that those acts of punishment we think are unjustified (eg … , it is the claim that the act of
punishing a particular offender is … punished right now is in and of itself better than his not being …

… more repulsive, and more intense as punishments, the inescapable thesis in Foucault is
that it is not altogether a good thing that we have developed this "disciplined" society; that we …

… In this article I wish to pose a different sort of question: What is pun… are punished properly,
I assume that they are being punished for something. Yet it is not clear what this "something" is. …

… for prevention or regulation or administrative convenience it is not, by definition, punishment.
Yet this privileging of purpose does not mitigate the pains imposed by coercive measures, …

… Secondly, this account is intended to provide, not a justification of punishment as it actually
operates in our existing penal systems (which cannot in general be seen as administering …

… system; but it is a work of theory also because it … punishment is pure power, with no authority,
and it is authority that we lack, not power. Where authority is lost, "the police can only punish…