The Consent Solution to Punishment and the Explicit Denial Objection
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16-06-2010
Miroslav Imbrisevic
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Recently, David Boonin has put forward several objections to Carlos S. Nino's 'Consensual Theory of Punishment'. In this paper I will defend Nino against the 'explicit denial objection'. I will discuss whether Boonin's interpretation of Nino as a tacit consent theorist is right. I will argue that the offender's consent is neither tacit nor express, but a special category of implicit consent. Further, for Nino the legal-normative consequences of an act (of crime) are 'irrevocable', i.e. one cannot (expressly and successfully) deny liability to them. I will suggest an explanation for Nino's irrevocability claim.
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Imbrisevic, M. (2010). The Consent Solution to Punishment and the Explicit Denial Objection. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 25(2), 211–224. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.636
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