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Limits of Blame

Erin I. Kelly
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      Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, Erin Kelly challenges the moralism behind harsh treatment of criminal offenders and calls into question our society’s commitment to mass incarceration.The Limits of Blame takes issue with a criminal justice system that aligns legal criteria of guilt with moral criteria of blameworthiness. Many incarcerated people do not meet the criteria of blameworthiness, even when they are guilty of crimes. Kelly underscores the problems of exaggerating what criminal guilt indicates, particularly when it is tied to the illusion that we know how long and in what ways criminals should suffer. Our practice of assigning blame has gone beyond a pragmatic need for protection and a moral need to repudiate harmful acts publicly. It represents a desire for retribution that normalizes excessive punishment.Appreciating the limits of moral blame critically undermines a commonplace rationale for long and brutal punishment practices. Kelly proposes that we abandon our culture of blame and aim at reducing serious crime rather than imposing retribution. Were we to refocus our perspective to fit the relevant moral circumstances and legal criteria, we could endorse a humane, appropriately limited, and more productive approach to criminal justice.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Erin I. Kelly EAN: 9780674980778 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Harvard University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-11-12 CITY: GENRE: LAW / Jurisprudence, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Penology and punishment, Political science and theory, Jurisprudence and general issues, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy, Popular philosophy

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      Erin Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.
      Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, Erin Kelly challenges the moralism behind harsh treatment of criminal offenders and calls into question our society’s commitment to mass incarceration.The Limits of Blame takes issue with a criminal justice system that aligns legal criteria of guilt with moral criteria of blameworthiness. Many incarcerated people do not meet the criteria of blameworthiness, even when they are guilty of crimes. Kelly underscores the problems of exaggerating what criminal guilt indicates, particularly when it is tied to the illusion that we know how long and in what ways criminals should suffer. Our practice of assigning blame has gone beyond a pragmatic need for protection and a moral need to repudiate harmful acts publicly. It represents a desire for retribution that normalizes excessive punishment.Appreciating the limits of moral blame critically undermines a commonplace rationale for long and brutal punishment practices. Kelly proposes that we abandon our culture of blame and aim at reducing serious crime rather than imposing retribution. Were we to refocus our perspective to fit the relevant moral circumstances and legal criteria, we could endorse a humane, appropriately limited, and more productive approach to criminal justice.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Erin I. Kelly EAN: 9780674980778 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Harvard University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-11-12 CITY: GENRE: LAW / Jurisprudence, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Penology and punishment, Political science and theory, Jurisprudence and general issues, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy, Popular philosophy

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      Erin Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.

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