Document Type
Article
Publication Title
University of Chicago Law Review
Publication Date
2010
ISSN
0041-9494
Page Number
1633
Keywords
crime, criminal law, punishment, core wrongs, justice, culture, evolutionary analysis in law
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Evolution | Law
Abstract
Recent work reveals, contrary to wide-spread assumptions, remarkably high levels of agreement about how to rank order, by blameworthiness, wrongs that involve physical harms, takings of property, or deception in exchanges. In The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice (http://ssrn.com/abstract=952726) we proposed a new explanation for these unexpectedly high levels of agreement.
Elsewhere in this issue, Professors Braman, Kahan, and Hoffman offer a critique of our views, to which we reply here. Our reply clarifies a number of important issues, such as the interconnected roles that culture, variation, and evolutionary processes play in generating intuitions of punishment.
Recommended Citation
Owen D. Jones and Robert Kurzban,
Intuitions of Punishment, 77 University of Chicago Law Review. 1633
(2010)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/1064