Date of Award

Spring 4-28-2011

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

Andrew J Cohen

Second Advisor

William Edmundson

Third Advisor

Andrew Altman

Abstract

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.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.57709/2098970

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