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02760aam a2200385 i 4500 001 3407BE762E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190212010150 008 180323t20182018mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018014686 020 $a 0674980778 020 $a 9780674980778 035 $a (OCoLC)1028603120 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d TOH $d HLS $d GWL $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a K5103 $b .K49 2018 100 1 $a Kelly, Erin, $e author. 245 14 $a The limits of blame : $b rethinking punishment and responsibility / $c Erin I. Kelly. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts ; $b Harvard University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a 229 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, 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. The author 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. 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"--Book jacket. 505 0 $a Criminalizing people -- Accountability in criminal justice -- Skepticism about moral desert -- Blame and excuses -- Criminal justice without blame -- Rethinking punishment -- Law enforcement in an unjust society -- Civic justice. 650 0 $a Retribution $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Punishment $z United States $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Criminal liability $z United States $x Philosophy. 650 7 $a Punishment $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01084116 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214015206.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210804012956.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214021558.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3407BE762E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search