Name: The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (en Inglés)
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Author: Erin I. Kelly
ISBN: 9780674980778

portada The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Harvard University Press

Autor

Erin I. Kelly

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780674980778

Categorías

Filosofía ética y moral

The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (en Inglés)

Erin I. Kelly (Autor) · Harvard University Press · Tapa Dura

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Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, Erin Kelly challenges the moralism behind harsh treatment of criminal offenders and calls into question our society's commitment to mass incarceration. The Limits of Blame takes issue with a criminal justice system that aligns legal criteria of guilt with moral criteria of blameworthiness. Many incarcerated people do not meet the criteria of blameworthiness, even when they are guilty of crimes. Kelly underscores the problems of exaggerating what criminal guilt indicates, particularly when it is tied to the illusion that we know how long and in what ways criminals should suffer. Our practice of assigning blame has gone beyond a pragmatic need for protection and a moral need to repudiate harmful acts publicly. It represents a desire for retribution that normalizes excessive punishment. Appreciating the limits of moral blame critically undermines a commonplace rationale for long and brutal punishment practices. Kelly proposes that we abandon our culture of blame and aim at reducing serious crime rather than imposing retribution. Were we to refocus our perspective to fit the relevant moral circumstances and legal criteria, we could endorse a humane, appropriately limited, and more productive approach to criminal justice.