重新思考对无家可归者的惩罚

IF 0.4 Q2 Social Sciences
Terry Skolnik
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本文认为,我们应该重新考虑对违反生活质量条例的无家可归者的惩罚。这些条例禁止被视为构成城市滋扰的行为,其中包括城市露营、公共小便和在人行道上睡觉。违反有关生活质量的条例可能会导致昂贵的罚款、行政费用和未付罚款的民事后果。与其他学者的工作一致,这篇文章展示了我们目前的惩罚计划如何使个人陷入无家可归的境地,并像一个自我实现的预言一样运作。缺乏私有产权,陷入无家可归的循环中,无家可归者将继续在公共财产上缓解他们的需求,并受到进一步的强迫和惩罚。无家可归者因违反生活质量罪而受到的惩罚也令人反感,因为它们违反了三类相称性约束:被禁止行为的严重性、无家可归者的道德应受谴责性和他们的个人情况。本文提出了另一种惩罚方案,将无家可归的可能性降到最低,并补救了这三个相称性问题。它认为,国家应该采用一日罚款模式进行经济处罚,实施刑事司法债务免除框架,并重新考虑与未付罚款相关的民事和刑事后果。一个比例更大的惩罚方案既不能解决无家可归的现实问题,也不能取代国家确保更好地获得住房的责任。然而,本文的建议可以减轻与无家可归者的惩罚相关的最严重后果,防止无家可归者的根深蒂固,并确保无家可归者得到更大的尊重。
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Rethinking Homeless People’s Punishments
This article argues that we should rethink homeless people’s punishments for violating quality-of-life ordinances. Those ordinances prohibit acts that are deemed to constitute urban nuisances—urban camping, public urination, and sleeping on sidewalks among them. Violating quality-of-life ordinances can result in expensive fines, administrative fees, and civil consequences for unpaid fines. In line with other scholars’ work, this article demonstrates how our current punishment scheme entrenches individuals in homelessness and operates like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Lacking a private property right and stuck in a cycle of homelessness, homeless people will continue to alleviate their needs on public property and be subject to further coercion and punishment. Homeless people’s punishments for violating quality-of-life offenses are also objectionable because they violate three types of proportionality constraints: the gravity of the prohibited conduct, the homeless person’s moral blameworthiness, and their personal situation. This article proposes an alternate punishment scheme that minimizes the prospect of entrenchment in homelessness and remedies those three proportionality concerns. It argues that the state should adopt a day-fine model for financial penalties, implement criminal justice debt absolution frameworks, and rethink the civil and criminal consequences associated with unpaid fines. A more proportional punishment scheme is neither a solution to the reality of homelessness nor a substitute for the state’s responsibility to ensure better access to housing. However, this article’s proposals can mitigate the gravest consequences associated with homeless people’s punishments, prevent entrenchment in homelessness, and ensure homeless people are treated with greater respect.
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期刊介绍: Focused on examinations of crime and punishment in domestic, transnational, and international contexts, New Criminal Law Review provides timely, innovative commentary and in-depth scholarly analyses on a wide range of criminal law topics. The journal encourages a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches and is a crucial resource for criminal law professionals in both academia and the criminal justice system. The journal publishes thematic forum sections and special issues, full-length peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, and occasional correspondence.
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