Post-conflict amnesties and/as plea bargains

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ID12893073
AutoresPatrick Lenta (0000-0003-4061-4376, University of Technology Sydney, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen19
Número2
Páginas188-205
Fecha de publicación2023-05-04
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Global Ethics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1744-9626 • E-ISSN: 1744-9634
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449626.2023.2230206
OpenAlexW4382679982
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas31

I assess the force of a justification for post-conflict amnesties that is aimed at overcoming the most common objection to their conferral: that they entail retributive injustice. According to this justification, retributivists ought to consider amnesties to be justified because they are analogous to plea bargains, and because retributivists need not consider plea bargains to be unacceptable. I argue with reference to the 2001 Timor-Leste immunity scheme that amnesties conditional upon perpetrators’ not only admitting guilt and confessing but also making reparations may count as plea bargains. I show that plea bargains providing sentence discounts in return for guilty pleas, allowing offenders who accept these bargains to be punished in the absence of trials, and plea bargains offering leniency in punishment in exchange for offenders pleading guilty and providing testimony or other incriminating evidence against superiors or accomplices, may be consonant with versions of retributivism that allow less than the full measure of an offender’s deserved punishment to be exacted where necessary to maximise or expand deserved punishment overall. I argue that amnesties that are also plea bargains may be considered justified by plea bargain-defending retributivists. So too may amnesties conferred in exchange for perpetrators’ admitting guilt and providing incriminating testimony or other evidence against their superiors and accomplices, some of which count as plea bargains, since they too could in some cases maximise or expand deserved punishment

Criminology · Economic Justice · Injustice · Law and economics · Plea · Pleading · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Retributive justice · Sociology · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification

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