False accounting

Why we shouldn’t ask people who commit crimes to pay their debts to society

A journal article on the metaphor of ‘punishment as debt’, for the journal Working Notes
journal article
Authors
Affiliation

Alice Ievins

University of Cambridge

Ben Jarman

University of Cambridge

Thea Thomasin Reimer

Published

2021-06-14

Keywords

penal theory, penal debt, retributivism, life imprisonment, murder

Availability

Published version available via the publisher’s website. Accepted manuscript available via https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.82005.

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All rights reserved

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@article{ievinsFalseAccountingWhy2021,
  author = {Ievins, Alice and Jarman, Ben and Reimer, Thea Thomasin},
  publisher = {Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice},
  title = {False Accounting: {Why} We Shouldn’t Ask People Who Commit
    Crimes to Pay Their Debts to Society},
  journal = {Working Notes},
  number = {88},
  date = {2021-06-14},
  url = {https://www.jcfj.ie/article/false-accounting-why-we-shouldnt-ask-people-who-commit-crimes-to-pay-their-debts-to-society/},
  doi = {10.17863/CAM.82005},
  langid = {en-GB}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Ievins, A., Jarman, B., & Reimer, T. T. (2021). False accounting: Why we shouldn’t ask people who commit crimes to pay their debts to society. Working Notes, (88). doi:10.17863/CAM.82005