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To Make The Punishment Fit The Crime: Essays In The Theory Of Criminal Justice

Michael Davis

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Part 1 Theory: recent work in punishment theory the relative independence of punishment theory harm and retribution how to make the punishment fit the crime. Part 2 Applications: what does rape deserve? why attempts deserve less punishment than complete crimes just deserts for recidivists strict liability - deserved conduct for faultless conduct guilty but insane? sentencing - must justice be even-handed? Part 3 Replies to some objections: criminal desert, harm and fairness using the market to measure deserved punishment - a final defence.

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Key concepts: Retributive justice, Punishment (psychology), Criminology, Harm, Desert (philosophy), Criminal justice, Sociology of punishment, Theory of criminal justice