TY  - UNPD
A1  - Günther, Klaus
T1  - Criminal law, crime and punishment as communication
T2  - Normative orders working paper : Normative Orders, Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt, Main ; 2014, 02
N2  - Expressivist theories of punishment, according to which a penal sanction articulates or expresses a certain meaning to the offender, to the victim and to society, become more and more prominent among the traditional theories of punishment as retribution or deterrence. What these theories have in common is the idea that the conveyance of the meaning is in need of a communicative action, and that the penal sanction is such a communicative act. This article argues that pure communicative theories of punishment face great difficulties in generating any justification for hard treatment. One challenge is that certain types of sanctions – in particularly, hard treatment – restrict the communicative opportunities of the incarcerated individual; which generates a paradox, in that it turns punishment into a communicative action of non-communication. Beyond that, moreover, all practices of hard treatment potentially become unnecessary, if expressing the moral message of censure constitutes a kind of action in itself, and as such, itself a treatment of the offender, embedded in a communicative relationship between offender, victim and society; such that we may be able to think of the history of punishment as a development where hard treatment becomes more and more unnecessary for the conveyance of the message.
T3  - Normative orders working paper  :  Normative Orders, Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt, Main - 2014, 02 
KW  - Criminal Law
KW  - Crime
KW  - Punishment
KW  - Communication
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34663
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-346639
SP  - 1
EP  - 22
PB  - Univ. Frankfurt, Fachbereich Rechtswiss.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -