Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice

ISBN-13: 9781108723480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 399 str.

Gregg D. Caruso

Opis

Caruso argues against retributivism and develops an alternative for addressing criminal behavior that is ethically defensible and practical.

Recenzje

'While debates over penal theory can seem intractable, Caruso offers a refreshingly original account. His model is the most comprehensive defence of a pro-rehabilitative position arguing for seeing criminal justice as a public health issue that I have seen in very many years and I welcome it. … this is an important work that should be of great interest to penal scholars and policy makers.' Thom Brooks, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; 1. Free will, legal punishment, and retributivism; 2. Free will skepticism: hard incompatibilism and hard luck; 3. The epistemic argument against retributivism; 4. Additional reasons for rejecting retributivism; 5. Consequentialist, educational, and mixed theories of punishment; 6. Public health-quarantine model I: a non-retributive approach to criminal behavior; 7. Public health-quarantine model II: the social determinants of health & criminal behavior; 8. Public health-quarantine model iii: human dignity, victims' rights, rehabilitation, and preemptive incapacitation; 9. Public health-quarantine model IV: funishment, deterrence, evidentiary standards, and indefinite detention; References; Index.