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Beyond Punishment?: A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction

Beyond Punishment?: A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction

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People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote, or other goods. Some may be deported, may be subjected to continued detention, or may have their criminal
records made publicly accessible. These measures are often more burdensome than the formal sentence itself.

In Beyond Punishment?, Zachary Hoskins offers a philosophical examination of these burdensome legal measures, called collateral legal consequences. Drawing on resources in moral, legal, and political philosophy, Hoskins analyzes the various kinds of collateral consequences imposed in different legal
systems and the important moral challenges they raise. Can collateral legal consequences ever be justified as forms of criminal punishment or as civil measures? Hoskins contends that, considered as forms of punishment, such restrictions should be constrained by considerations of proportionality and
offender reform. He also argues that they may in a limited range of cases be permissible as risk-reductive civil measures. Whether considered as criminal punishment or civil measures, however, collateral legal consequences are justifiable in a far narrower range of cases than we find in current
legal practice.

Considering just how pervasive collateral legal consequences have become and their dramatic effects on offenders' lives, Beyond Punishment? sheds valuable light on whether these restrictive measures are ever morally justified.


Author: Zachary Hoskins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/22/2019
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780199389230

About the Author

Zachary Hoskins is Assistant Professor in philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He writes about issues in moral, legal, and political philosophy, especially about normative questions raised by the criminal law and punishment. He has co-edited two books and written more than 20 articles.

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