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Rethinking Punishment (Paperback)
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Rethinking Punishment (Paperback)
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The age-old debate about what constitutes just punishment has
become deadlocked. Retributivists continue to privilege desert over
all else, and consequentialists continue to privilege punishment's
expected positive consequences, such as deterrence or
rehabilitation, over all else. In this important intervention into
the debate, Leo Zaibert argues that despite some obvious
differences, these traditional positions are structurally very
similar, and that the deadlock between them stems from the fact
they both oversimplify the problem of punishment. Proponents of
these positions pay insufficient attention to the conflicts of
values that punishment, even when justified, generates. Mobilizing
recent developments in moral philosophy, Zaibert offers a properly
pluralistic justification of punishment that is necessarily more
complex than its traditional counterparts. An understanding of this
complexity should promote a more cautious approach to inflicting
punishment on individual wrongdoers and to developing punitive
policies and institutions.
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