Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (Law and the Cognitive Sciences),Used
Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (Law and the Cognitive Sciences),Used

Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (Law and the Cognitive Sciences),Used

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Within the criminal justice system, one of the most prominent justifications for legal punishment is retributivism. The retributive justification of legal punishment maintains that wrongdoers are morally responsible for their actions and deserve to be punished in proportion to their wrongdoing. This book argues against retributivism and develops a viable alternative that is both ethically defensible and practical. Introducing six distinct reasons for rejecting retributivism, Gregg D. Caruso contends that it is unclear that agents possess the kind of free will and moral responsibility needed to justify this view of punishment. While a number of alternatives to retributivism exist including consequentialist deterrence, educational, and communicative theories they have ethical problems of their own. Moving beyond existing theories, Caruso presents a new nonretributive approach called the public healthquarantine model. In stark contrast to retributivism, the public healthquarantine model provides a more human, holistic, and effective approach to dealing with criminal behavior.

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