See NussbaumMartha C., Poetic Justice, Boston, Beacon Press, 1995; NussbaumMartha C, Sex and Social Justice, New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. Ch. 6, ‘Equity and Mercy’.
2.
NussbaumMartha C., ‘Equity and Mercy’, above, p. 171.
3.
De Clementia, II, 7, fragment.
4.
Seneca, De ClementiaII, 3.
5.
For articulations of theories along these lines, see eg HartH.L.A., ‘Prolegomena to a Theory of Punishment’ in his Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970; and BraithwaiteJ.PettitP., Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice, Oxford University Press, 1990.
