The Scales of Injustice

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 26 (1):1-24 (2008)
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Abstract

This paper criticizes four major approaches to criminal law – consequentialism, retributivism, abolitionism, and “mixed” pluralism – each of which, in its own fashion, affirms the celebrated emblem of the “scales of justice.” The argument is that there is a better way of dealing with the tensions that often arise between the various legal purposes than by balancing them against each other. For we should aim to genuinely reconcile them instead.

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Charles Blattberg
Université de Montréal

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