from Part I - The Descartes Lectures 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2020
Even when we grant that social punishment is permissible in principle, justifying particular practices of social punishment presents new difficulties. Many of the challenges to punishing justly that are familiar from the legal realm reappear in new ways in the social realm. These include guilt-determination, maintaining proportionality, and establishing the authority to punish. This chapter explores these problems by considering cases of naming and shaming in social media. It defends a set of norms for limiting the application social punishment.
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