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A passionately engaged book that puts individual moral responsibility at the center of criminal justice and challenges much of the traditional wisdom. Required reading for all those interested in criminal justice policy and criminal law. - Stephen J. Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania From the opening paragraph, Pillsbury piques the reader's curiosity about just punishments... What do people deserve for their wrongdoing, especially in those cases involving extreme cruelty? ... Pillsbury enables clear and careful thinking about one's own expectations of the legal system. Highly recommended. - Choice A provocative, well-written volume that will keenly interest criminologists, lawyers, and philosophers alike. - Paul M. Kurtz, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law, University of Georgia

A passionately engaged book that puts individual moral responsibility at the center of criminal justice and challenges much of the traditional wisdom. Required reading for all those interested in criminal justice policy and criminal law. <br>a, - Stephen J. Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania

(<p> A provocative, well-written volume that will keenly interest criminologists, lawyers, and philosophers alike. )-(Paul M. Kurtz), (J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law, University of Georgia )

<p> A passionately engaged book that puts individual moral responsibility at the center of criminal justice and challenges much of the traditional wisdom. Required reading for all those interested in criminal justice policy and criminal law. -Stephen J. Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania

<p> One is transported from barricade to courtroom to communal cooking-pot to dance-floor. You get to see the struggle from the inside out ... All I know who have read it, feel in fighting form after putting it down. <br>-Natal Mercury,

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A former journalist and federal prosecutor, Samuel H. Pillsbury is Professor of Law and Williams Rains Fellow at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California.

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