The offender’s experience of punitiveness : a descriptive phenomenological study KU Leuven
Imposing a penal sanction generally implies the intentional infliction of suffering or pain on a person convicted of committing criminal offenses. On the one hand, this added suffering is being legitimized by penal goals, whether or not they are being made explicit, on the other hand this practice is being legitimized by respecting the principles of fair sentencing, such as proportionality and equality. When determining the punishment and the ...