All Outputs (14)

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.

Guilty Pleas, Sentence Reductions, and Non-punishment of the Innocent (2023)
Book Chapter
Hoskins, Z. (2023). Guilty Pleas, Sentence Reductions, and Non-punishment of the Innocent. In J. V. Roberts, & J. Ryberg (Eds.), Sentencing the Self-Convicted: The Ethics of Pleading Guilty (51-69). Hart Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509957460.ch-004

Punishment's Burdens on the Innocent (2022)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2022). Punishment's Burdens on the Innocent. Journal of Applied Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12642

Critics of state punishment have frequently pointed out that its imposition sometimes involves the infliction of burdens on innocent people: namely, those falsely convicted of crimes and punished. Punishment also creates significant burdens for innoc... Read More about Punishment's Burdens on the Innocent.

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.

Review of Mark Dsouza’s Rationale-Based Defences in Criminal Law (2019)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2019). Review of Mark Dsouza’s Rationale-Based Defences in Criminal Law. Criminal Law and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-019-09500-0

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 PerspectivesBloomsbury 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.

Punishment (2016)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2017). Punishment. Analysis, 77(3), 619-632. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anw022

Collateral Restrictions (2016)
Book Chapter
Hoskins, Z. (2016). Collateral Restrictions. In Z. Hoskins, & C. Flanders (Eds.), The New Philosophy of Criminal LawRowman & Littlefield

Education, civic empowerment, and race: commentary on Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind (2015)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2015). Education, civic empowerment, and race: commentary on Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind. Social Philosophy Today, 31, https://doi.org/10.5840/socphiltoday201551815

Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind is a thoughtful, accessible, philosophically rich look at civic education in U.S. schools. The book’s central claims are, on the whole, quite persuasive. In the interests of fostering further discussion, this e... Read More about Education, civic empowerment, and race: commentary on Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind.

Punishing states and the spectre of guilt by association (2014)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2014). Punishing states and the spectre of guilt by association. International Criminal Law Review, 14(4-5), https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-01405009

Ex-offender Restrictions (2013)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2014). Ex-offender Restrictions. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 31(1), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12028

Individuals convicted of crimes are often subject to numerous restrictions - on housing, employment, the vote, public assistance, and other goods - well after they have completed their sentences, and in some cases permanently. The question of whether... Read More about Ex-offender Restrictions.