preventive detention

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I believe that enhanced sentencing is pure preventivedetention imposed under the guise of criminal punishment.
The third part of this article addresses whether explicit, pure preventivedetention would be a justifiable extension of the preemption now deemed acceptable.
We can take preemptive precautions, including broad preventivedetention, with nonresponsible agents based on an estimate of the risk they present.
It suggests that these justifications leave a gap in the prevention of danger that only pure preventivedetention can close.
Preventivedetention, by contrast, does not simply preclude acts that injure or endanger others.
Preventivedetention deprives someone of freedom because of crimes he or she has not yet committed.
An agent responsible enough to war rant criminal punishment is sufficiently responsible to avoid preventivedetention.
By contrast, preventivedetention limits the freedom of innocent people for the sake of the safety of others.
The thesis of this article is that society does have the right to intervene, to impose pure preventivedetention or equivalent deprivations, when the risk of serious harm is grave.
Finally, all of this turns out to imply that controversial practices like preventivedetention, preemptive selfdefense, or draconian penalties are morally much more defensible than usually thought.
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