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Over ten million people are incarcerated throughout the world, even though punishment theorists have struggled for centuries to morally justify the practice. Theorists usually address criminal justice under abstract, idealized conditions that assume away real-world uncertainty. We don't have time, however, to wait for a perfect moral theory, and the history of philosophy suggests we will never find it. 'Punishment for the Greater Good' examines the justification of punishment in the here and now, recognizing that we lack certainty about matters of both fact and value.
Cover -- Punishment for the Greater Good -- Copyright -- Summary Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Punishment Theory Here and Now -- I. Introduction -- II. Pure Consequentialism -- III. Standard Retributivism -- IV. Here-​and-​Now Justification -- V. Conclusion -- 2. Axiology Here and Now -- I. Introduction -- II. Utilitarian Axiology -- III. From Utilitarianism to Consequentialism -- IV. Measuring Retributivism -- V. Conclusion -- 3. Shortcut Consequentialism -- I. Introduction -- II. Some Benefits of Consequentialism -- III. The Need for Consequentialist Shortcuts
IV. Conclusion -- 4. Countering Counterintuition -- I. Introduction -- II. Deontological Constraints -- III. Punishment of the Innocent -- IV. Threshold Deontology -- V. Conclusion -- 5. Against Proportionality -- I. Introduction -- II. Proportional What? -- III. Problems for Proportional Harsh Treatment -- IV. Paying Off Desert Debt -- V. Other Kinds of Proportionality -- VI. The Consequentialist Approach -- VII. Conclusion -- 6. Retributivism Is Too Morally Risky -- I. Introduction -- II. The Epistemic Challenge to Retributivism -- III. The Justificatory Standard of Proof
IV. Consequentialist Risks -- V. Conclusion -- 7. Abolish Incarceration, But Not Today -- I. Introduction -- II. Empirical Speculation -- III. Kinds of Abolition -- IV. Reduce Emotion and Radically Experiment -- V. Conclusion -- Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.