Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Adams, Joseph Q Author's Email Address josephquintonadams@yahoo.com URN etd-04142008-173752 Title Retribution Requires Rehabilitation Degree Master of Arts Department Philosophy Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Andrew J. Cohen Committee Co-Chair Christie Hartley Committee Co-Chair Andrew I. Cohen Committee Member William A. Edmundson Committee Member Keywords
- Hampton
- Morality of punishment
- Master's thesis
- Right to punish
- Deterrence
- Justification of punishment
- Justice
- Retributivism
- Free rider
Date of Defense 2008-04-07 Availability unrestricted Abstract Herbert Morris argues in his influential retributivist paper, "Persons and Punishment," that criminals deserve punishment because their actions represent an unfair distribution of benefits and burdens in society. The proper distribution of benefits and burdens is important, in part, to restore law abiding citizens’ confidence that others will follow the law. In this paper I show that Morris's argument for why criminals deserve punishment morally requires us to set up an institution of rehabilitation in addition to the institution of punishment. Such an institution is morally required because neither pure punishment systems nor punishment systems that incorporate quasi-rehabilitative aspects have ever worked to uphold the necessary confidence that Morris tells us law abiding citizens must have in order to protect the social order. Moreover, we cannot abandon Morris's appeal to the duty to maintain social order without also abandoning a plausibly Morrisian framework.Files
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