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    For someone to have consented to be subject to certain co... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Most offenders do not in fact tacitly consent to their sentences.

    For someone to have consented to be subject to certain consequences of an act, she must know of these consequences.

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    Another view holds that punishment does not violate offenders’ rights insofar as they consent to their punishment (see Nino 1983). The consent view holds that when a person voluntarily commits a crime while knowing the consequences of doing so, she thereby consents to these consequences. This is not to say that she explicitly consents to being punished, but rather than by her voluntary action she tacitly consents to be subject to what she knows are the consequences. Notice that, like the forfeiture view, the consent view is agnostic regarding the positive aim of punishment: it purports to tell...

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