Gregg D. Caruso, "Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
b'According to an intuitive view, those who commit crimes are justifiably subject to punishment. Depending on the severity of the wrongdoing constitutive of the crime, punishment can be severe: incarceration, confinement, depravation, and so on. The common thought is that in committing serious crimes, persons render themselves\\xa0deserving\\xa0of punishment by the State. Punishment, then, is simply a matter of giving offenders their just deserts. Call this broad view\\xa0retributivism. What if retributivism\\u2019s underlying idea of desert is fundamentally confused? What if persons lack the kind of free will that would make them deserving of punishment in the sense that retributivism requires?\\nThis is the central question of\\xa0Gregg Caruso\\u2019s new book,\\xa0Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice\\xa0(Cambridge, 2021). After arguing against the idea that persons can be deserving of punishment in the retributivist\\u2019s sense, Caruso develops an alternative approach to criminal behavior that he called the Public-Health Quarantine Model.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'