Empirical Desert
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
11-1-2011
Abstract
This chapter presents an authoritative overview of the community's notion of justice, the so-called “empirical desert.” It includes comments by some of the nation's top legal scholars from the field of criminal law, tackling relevant issues ranging from compliance-promoting intuitions to punishment, criminal justice, legitimacy, sentencing, and restorative justice.
Keywords
justice, empirical desert, criminal law, Compliance, punishment, criminal justice, legitimacy, sentencing, restorative justice
Publication Title
Criminal Law Conversations
Repository Citation
Robinson, Paul, "Empirical Desert" (2011). Book Chapters. 134.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_chapters/134
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199861279.003.0002
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199861279.003.0002