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The moral permissibility of punishment.

Zachary Hoskins , Washington University in St. Louis Follow

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Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

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English (en)

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January 2011

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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This dissertation offers an account of the moral permissibility of criminal punishment. Punishment presents a distinctive moral challenge in that it involves a community’s inflicting harm on individuals, treating them in ways that would typically be morally wrong. We can distinguish a number of different questions of punishment’s permissibility. This dissertation focuses on four central questions:: 1) Why may we punish? Why is it in principle permissible to inflict harm on criminal offenders?: 2) Why should we punish? Is there a compelling reason to do so?: 3) How may we punish? What principles should constrain impositions of punishment? And finally,: 4) who is properly subject to punishment? Rather than expect to answer all of these questions by appeal to the same moral principle, this dissertation contends that the questions should be seen as distinct, and thus as appropriately answered by appeal to distinct moral considerations. Ultimately, the dissertation concludes that an institution of punishment that aims at deterrence, constrained by considerations of retribution and reform, is permissible insofar as the institution is among the mutually beneficial practices with which community members have reciprocal, fairness-based obligations to comply.

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Corporal punishment as a determinant of developmental outcomes: longitudinal and process models.

Matthew K. Mulvaney , University of New Hampshire, Durham

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There were two goals of this research: (1) to establish that normative corporal punishment has an impact on children's mental health and the parent-child relationship and (2) to identify intrapersonal variables that determine the impact of this parenting behavior. The first study examined the influence of corporal punishment across infancy and early childhood with longitudinal analyses performed on data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. The results suggest that corporal punishment does have a direct, unique impact on children's mental health and on the mother-child relationship. For the second study, a college sample was studied to examine the intervening role of individuals' subjective experiences of their parents' use of corporal punishment. The results of this study indicate that both perceived stress and attitudes towards corporal punishment play an important intervening role in determining the impact of physical punishment. These findings are relevant to the current debate among social scientists regarding the potential negative effects of corporal punishment and for formulating theoretical models of the effects of corporal punishment. The policy implications of these findings are discussed.

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