Punishing someone for a crime before they have committed it is widely considered morally abhorrent. But there is little agreement on what exactly is supposed to be wrong with it. In this paper, I critically evaluate several objections to the permissibility of prepunishment, making points along the way about the connections between time, knowledge, desert, deterrence and duty. I conclude that, although the conditions under which it could permissibly be administered are unlikely ever to arise in practice, nevertheless in principle, nothing is wrong with prepunishment after all.

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预判有什么问题吗？

在某人犯罪之前对其进行惩罚被广泛认为在道德上是令人憎恶的。但对于它究竟出了什么问题，人们几乎没有达成一致。在本文中，我批判性地评估了对预惩罚允许性的几种反对意见，并就时间、知识、应得、威慑和责任之间的联系提出了观点。我的结论是，虽然在实践中不太可能出现允许实施预惩罚的条件，但从原则上讲，预惩罚毕竟没有错。