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. 2021 Jul;15(2):217-222.
doi: 10.1007/s11572-020-09542-9. Epub 2020 May 6.

Can the law do without retributivism? Comments on Erin Kelly's The Limits of Blame

Adina L Roskies  1
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Can the law do without retributivism? Comments on Erin Kelly's The Limits of Blame

Adina L Roskies. Crim Law Philos. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

Erin Kelly's The Limits of Blame presents a critique of our current overly punitive legal system and champions a system of criminal justice that does not traffic in moral blame and is free of retributivist elements. This commentary questions the viability of such a system, and ultimately suggests that there is not much distance between a more perfect retributivist system and the kind of more nuanced and humane system of criminal justice that Kelly envisions.

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