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| DOI | 10.1525/nclr.2012.15.2.277 |
| EX ANTE FAIRNESS IN CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE | |
| Chiao, Vincent | |
| 通讯作者 | Chiao, V |
| 来源期刊 | NEW CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW
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| ISSN | 1933-4192 |
| EISSN | 1933-4206 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 卷号 | 15期号:2页码:277-332 |
| 英文摘要 | In Furman v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court announced that it would not tolerate a capital sentencing regime that imposed death sentences in a seriously arbitrary fashion. The question I ask in this paper is whether we should in fact object to arbitrariness in punishment. The answer I propose is that under plausibly adverse conditions, we might not object to arbitrary penal outcomes, because under those conditions a fair distribution of punishment would be one that equalizes chances across a class of similarly situated criminals. In particular, fairness may require no more than a rough equalization of ex ante chances under conditions of resource scarcity, an inability to rank claims reliably by comparative desert, and a pressing need for punishment to be imposed. I call this an ex ante theory of fairness. The central virtue of ex ante fairness is that it is capable of reconciling parsimony in punishment with equity in its distribution, even when claims about who deserves what are deeply contested. Adopting an ex ante standard of fairness means that a concern for fair treatment of the guilty need not blind us to the realities of the severe resource constraints faced by American criminal justice, and vice versa. After laying out the argument for ex ante fairness in general terms, I proceed to show how several prominent features of American criminal law and procedure-the Supreme Court's capital jurisprudence, prosecutorial discretion, judicial sentencing discretion, and "strict" criminal liability-all exhibit an implicit commitment to an equalization of chances rather than of outcomes. |
| 英文关键词 | death penalty prosecutorial discretion sentencing strict liability |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 开放获取类型 | Green Published |
| 收录类别 | ESCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000442621900003 |
| WOS类目 | Law |
| WOS研究方向 | Government & Law |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/330221 |
| 作者单位 | [Chiao, Vincent] Univ Toronto, Fac Law, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Chiao, Vincent. EX ANTE FAIRNESS IN CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE[J],2012,15(2):277-332. |
| APA | Chiao, Vincent.(2012).EX ANTE FAIRNESS IN CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE.NEW CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW,15(2),277-332. |
| MLA | Chiao, Vincent."EX ANTE FAIRNESS IN CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE".NEW CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 15.2(2012):277-332. |
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