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    On a communicative retributivist account, treating offend... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Emotions associated with self-blame (guilt, remorse) and others' blame (anger, resentment) play a central role in the process of taking responsibility for wrongdoing.

    On a communicative retributivist account, treating offenders as responsible agents involves pointing out when they have done wrong and expecting them to take responsibility for their wrongful actions.

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    Communicative retributivism(as used in punishment theory)
    A specific version of retributivism that emphasizes punishment as a way of expressing society's disapproval or blame for wrongdoing, rather than just inflicting pain for its own sake.
    Responsible agent(Moral responsibility theory)
    An agent who is a morally proper target of the reactive attitudes (praise and blame)
    Retributivism(as used in ethics and justice philosophy)
    A theory of punishment that says people deserve to be punished in proportion to the harm they caused—the worse the crime, the harsher the punishment should be.

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    Take responsibility(as used in ethics)
    To acknowledge that you did something wrong and accept the consequences or blame for it, rather than denying it or blaming others.

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    The second line of objection to communicative versions of retributivism — and indeed against retributivism generally — charges that the notions of desert and blame at the heart of retributivist accounts are misplaced and pernicious. One version of this objection is grounded in scepticism about free will. Free will scepticism holds that people’s behaviour is the product of determinism, luck, or chance, and thus that we are not morally responsible for our behaviour in the respects that would justify the ideas that those who commit crimes are blameworthy and deserve punishment (see Pereboom 2013;...

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