Rehabilitation
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
9-25-2008
Abstract
This chapter addresses the question of whether rehabilitation would make a good distributive principle for liability and punishment. It shows that skepticism about its effectiveness has resulted in little support for the use of rehabilitation as a distributive principle. Few existing American codes give significant deference to it. Indeed, some explicitly reject it as a distributive principle, while others do so implicitly. The Model Penal Code, for example, omits rehabilitation from its list of the “general purposes of the provisions governing the definition of offenses”.
Keywords
liability, punishment, Distributive Principle, prison
Publication Title
Distributive Principles of Criminal Law: Who Should be Punished How Much
Repository Citation
Robinson, Paul, "Rehabilitation" (2008). Book Chapters. 152.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_chapters/152
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365757.003.0005
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365757.003.0005