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Rethinking Legal Retribution, Stephen Parsley
Rethinking Legal Retribution, Stephen Parsley
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In this paper I discuss retributivist justifications for legal punishment. I argue that the main moral retributivist theories advanced so far fail to support a plausible system of legal punishment. As an alternative, I suggest, with some reservations, the legal retributivism advanced by Alan Brudner in his Punishment and Freedom.