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Moral and criminal responsibility in Plato's laws / Pangle, Lorraine Smith

Pangle, Lorraine Smith	Journal Article
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2009.

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In his most practical work, the Laws, Plato combines a frank statement of the radical Socratic thesis that virtue is knowledge and vice involuntary with a prudential acceptance of the political community's need for retributive punishment. This paper examines the Laws' statements of principle regarding responsibility and punishment and compares these with the actual criminal code proposed in Book 9. The result is to show how a radical philosophic insight can be adapted to make ordinary citizens more gentle, thoughtful, and humane without sapping their moral commitments. Lessons are drawn from the Laws for the contemporary restorative justice movement.

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Moral Responsibility ; Criminal Responsibility ; Plato Law ; Criminal Code

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When children commit atrocities in war / Wright, Tim

Wright, Tim	Journal Article
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2010.

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There is considerable disagreement among governments, civil society groups and scholars as to whether the prosecution of child soldiers who have committed war crimes is ever appropriate. In one camp are those who argue that child soldiers should always be considered as victims, and that prosecutions are necessarily at odds with rehabilitation and reintegration efforts. On the other side of the debate are those who maintain that the prosecution of the worst child offenders - those who have occupied command positions in armed forces, and carried out particularly egregious crimes - can help to end impunity for war criminals and bring a degree of solace to the victims of their brutal assaults. This article considers the different approaches to criminal responsibility for minors in domestic legal systems and under international law, and concludes that the prosecution of child soldiers should only be pursued in exceptional circumstances.

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War Crimes ; Child Soldiers ; Criminal Responsibility ; Rights of the Child ; Juvenile Justice ; Peace with Justice

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