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Collateral Legal Consequences and Criminal Sentencing (2023)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2023). Collateral Legal Consequences and Criminal Sentencing. American Philosophical Quarterly, 60(2), 117-130. https://doi.org/10.5406/21521123.60.2.02

A criminal conviction can trigger numerous burdensome legal consequences beyond the formal sentence. Some charge that these “collateral” legal consequences (CLCs) constitute additional measures of punishment, which raises the further question of whet... Read More about Collateral Legal Consequences and Criminal Sentencing.

Public Reason and the Justification of Punishment (2022)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2022). Public Reason and the Justification of Punishment. Criminal Justice Ethics, 41(2), 121-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2022.2102838

Chad Flanders has argued that retributivism is inconsistent with John Rawls’s core notion of public reason, which sets out those considerations on which legitimate exercises of state power can be based. Flanders asserts that retributivism is grounded... Read More about Public Reason and the Justification of Punishment.

Against Incapacitative Punishment (2019)
Book Chapter
Hoskins, Z. (2019). Against Incapacitative Punishment. In J. W. de Keijser, J. V. Roberts, & J. Ryberg (Eds.), Predictive Sentencing: Normative and Empirical Perspectives. Bloomsbury Publishing

Beyond Punishment? A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction (2019)
Book
Hoskins, Z. (2019). Beyond Punishment? A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199389230.001.0001

People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote, or other goods. Some may be deported, may be subjected to contin... Read More about Beyond Punishment? A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction.

Criminalization and the collateral consequences of conviction (2017)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2017). Criminalization and the collateral consequences of conviction. Criminal Law and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-017-9449-2

Convicted offenders face a host of so-called “collateral” consequences: formal measures such as legal restrictions on voting, employment, housing, or public assistance, as well as informal consequences such as stigma, family tensions, and financial i... Read More about Criminalization and the collateral consequences of conviction.

Multiple-Offense Sentencing Discounts: Score One for Hybrid Accounts of Punishment (2017)
Book Chapter
Hoskins, Z. (2017). Multiple-Offense Sentencing Discounts: Score One for Hybrid Accounts of Punishment. In J. V. Roberts, J. W. D. Keijser, & J. Ryberg (Eds.), Sentencing for Multiple Crimes (75-93). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190607609.003.0005

© Oxford University Press 2018. This chapter examines one intuitively appealing legal practice for which retributivist accounts struggle to find justification: multiple-offense sentencing discounts. It also considers several proposed strategies for j... Read More about Multiple-Offense Sentencing Discounts: Score One for Hybrid Accounts of Punishment.