Theorizing Punishment: Rules and Care in Penal Systems
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2008
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Haverford College. Department of Philosophy
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My thesis discusses the motivations for legal punishment in the context of rule-based and care-based theories of justice. I draw on John Rawls, Marilyn Friedman, David Hoekema and others. In the end, I argue for a theory of punishment based on the rehabilitative motivation.