Rejecting retributivism : free will, punishment, and criminal justice

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Title
"Rejecting retributivism : free will, punishment, and criminal justice"
Statement of Responsibility
Gregg D. Caruso
Publisher
  • Cambridge University Press
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
23 cm
Series Name / No
  • : pbk

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Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-383) and index

Summary: "Within the criminal justice system one of the most prominent justifications for legal punishment, both historically and currently, is retributivism. The retributive justification of legal punishment maintains that, absent any excusing conditions, wrongdoers are morally responsible for their actions and deserve to be punished in proportion to their wrongdoing. Unlike theories of punishment that aim at deterrence, rehabilitation, or incapacitation, retributivism grounds punishment in the blameworthiness and desert of offenders. It holds that punishing wrongdoers is intrinsically good. For the retributivist, wrongdoers deserve a punitive response proportional to their wrongdoing, even if their punishment serves no further purpose. This means that the retributivist position is not reducible to consequentialist considerations nor in justifying punishment does it appeal to wider goods such as the safety of society or the moral improvement of those being punished"-- Provided by publisher

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