ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the procedures for justifying the actual imposition of sanctions or other interference. It argues that the punitive sanctions or interferences referred to cover a much wider range than is usually conveyed by punishment or blame. One needs to establish the more difficult case that it would be justifiable to sanction any one of a specified class, that x is a member of that class, and that there are no excusing conditions. The process of deciding whether the man is liable for sanction, more specifically in connection with examining the nature of the deontic responsibility violated. Presupposing the justification of a man's liability, then, the actual sanctioning is justified if: it is established that the sanctioning would work; and it is established that no excuses exist to block the justification. The criteria favor, permanence, pervasiveness, fecundity, and so on, all features on which the innocent man's valuations are likely to be based.
