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"While the philosophy of punishment is dominated by utilitarian and ""mixed"" theories, this study, written in the analytic tradition but also drawing on the views of Hegel, argues for a purely retributive view: all the main questions facing a theory of punishment are answered in terms of justice and desert, without any concessions to social expediency."

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"""""Justifying Legal Punishment offers a cogent defense of retributivism . . . a biting critique of utilitarian justifications of punishment, and a tentative defense of capital punishment. . . . A particularly timely book, given the precarious progress of retributivism in the twentieth century."" --Ethics""By producing the present, clear, comprehensive, and compelling defense of a strict retributivist justification, Dr. Igor Primoratz has set a challenging standard."" --The Philosophical Quarterly"

Justifying Legal Punishment offers a cogent defense of retributivism . . . a biting critique of utilitarian justifications of punishment, and a tentative defense of capital punishment. . . . A particularly timely book, given the precarious progress of retributivism in the twentieth century. <br>--Ethics<br><br> By producing the present, clear, comprehensive, and compelling defense of a strict retributivist justification, Dr. Igor Primoratz has set a challenging standard. <br>--The Philosophical Quarterly

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Igor Primoratz is a Principal Research Fellow with the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

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