19th March 2025
Organised by The University of Edinburgh Crime, Justice & Society Seminar Series and the Virtual Criminal Law Group.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Punishment
Matt Matravers (University of York)
About this event
Philosophers of (legal) punishment tend to talk about punishment, but should we? This paper considers whether the problem of justifying punishment is best approached by talking about other things: perhaps the state, public policy, and/or criminal justice. It goes on to delineate the advantages and disadvantages of differing approaches to theorising about punishment.
About the speaker
Matt is Professor of Law at York Law School, having been at the University of York since 1995 serving as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations.