All Outputs (9)

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.

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

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.

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

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.