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<p>What ends do we expect and hope to serve in punishing criminal wrongdoers? Does the punishment of offenders do more harm than good for American society? In <b>The Case against Punishment</b>, Deirdre Golash addresses these and other questions about the value of punishment in contemporary society.<br> Drawing on both empirical evidence and philosophical literature, this book argues that the harm done by punishing criminal offenders is ultimately morally unjustified. Asserting that punishment i
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- Author
- Deirdre Golash
- Publisher
- New York: New York University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814731581
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Law, Social Science, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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