In penal theory and the philosophy of punishment, parsimony refers specifically to taking care in the distribution of punishment in order to avoid excessive punishment.

In general, Czech penal theory recognizes certain classes of circumstances where criminal liability will be excluded in respect of actions which would normally attract a criminal penalty.

By contrast, moral influence advocates argue that the penal substitutionary theory portrays God as unable or unwilling to forgive wrong actions and requiring that there be full and complete punishment for all past wrongs, regardless of repentance.

He is founder and director of a new research center on penal theory at this University, entitled "Forschungsstelle für Strafrechtstheorie und Strafrechtsethik".

Von Hirsch's philosophical theories about penal theory and criminal law have generated an enormous body of independent literature.

Here he rejected the widely accepted 'penal theory', according to which Jesus bore on the cross the punishment which God must exact from sinners if he was once more to be gracious to them.

Campbell has been wrongly accused of minimizing the penal substitutionary theory of the atonement (Anselm's view) with his alternate view, but Campbell never denied its theological veracity.

Her teaching and research interests include penal theory, comparative criminology, victims, security, risk and anti-terrorist policy.

Far from attempting a novel penal theory to justify doubling the sentence, the California Court of Appeal offered no comment at all as to the particular penal theory supporting such a punishment.

For if Foucault is to be believed, it was at this French penal colony which began our descent into our modern penal theories and the inherent power structures they entail.