Responding to the Culpable State

Leo Zaibert is the Andreas von Hirsch Professor of Penal Theory and Ethics, and Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Ethics, University of Cambridge, UK.Julian V Roberts is Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford, UK. Jesper Ryberg is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Law, Roskilde University, Denmark.

• 1. State Misconduct as Sentence Mitigation: Setting the Scene, Leo Zaibert (University of Cambridge, UK), Julian V Roberts (University of Oxford, UK) and Jesper Ryberg (Roskilde University, Denmark)2. State Illegitimacy and Punishment: Examining the Case for Discounts, Goran Duus-Otterstrom (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)3. State Misconduct and Mitigation in Punishment, Matt Matravers (University of York, UK)4. The State Fault and the Right to Mitigation of Punishment, Vera Bergelson (Rutgers University School of Law, USA)5. Standing to Punish, Sentence Mitigation and the Applicability Challenge, Jesper Ryberg (Roskilde University, Denmark)6. ‘One Wrong Treads upon the Heels of Another’: Mitigating Sentence in Response to State Misconduct, Julian V Roberts (University of Oxford, UK) and Netanel Dagan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)7. Sentence Mitigation as a Response to Intrinsic State Injustice, Leo Zaibert (University of Cambridge, UK)8. Sentence Mitigation for Unjustly Disadvantaged Offenders: Some Hard Questions, Richard L Lippke (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)9. The Relevance of State Misconduct for Mitigating Punishment, Thom Brooks (Durham University, UK)10. Sentence Mitigation as a Remedy for the State’s Legitimacy Deficit, Hend Hanafy (University of Cambridge, UK)11. The Relevance of State Misconduct in Sentencing: Distinguishing Justifications, Marie Manikis (McGill University, Canada)12. Police Misconduct and Sentence Mitigation, Gabrielle Watson (University of Edinburgh, UK)13. Epistemic Injustice, State Misconduct and Sentence Mitigation, Andrei Poama (Leiden University, the Netherlands) and Mojca M Plesnicar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)14. Unpacking the Recidivist Sentencing Discount from a State Misconduct Perspective, Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge, UK)15. Whataboutism at Sentencing? Benjamin Ewing (Queen’s University, Canada)16. State Misconduct and Sentence Mitigation: Final Reflections, Nicola Padfield (University of Cambridge, UK)