Przestępstwo i kara w filozoficznym ujęciu Johna Finnisa
Crime and punishment in the light of John Finnis’s natural-law philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of this article is to outline the concept of criminal responsibility emerging from John Finnis’s natural law philosophy. Finnis accepts the retrospective point of view of punishment (retribution), rejecting the idea of social reintegration (re-socialization, rehabilitation). Only aim of the punishment is to restore the so called social balance, violated by crime. The key to Finnis’s approach is that crime, responsibility, justice and punishment are understood in terms of the natural law tradition. Finnis’s concept of the criminal responsibility is treated as the starting point for reinterpretation of classical (or traditional) retributivism in the spirit of natural law. Moreover, the reinterpretation takes into account the critical comments formulated by scholars from the so called radical criminology, abolitionism, and penal minimalism.

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