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    Punishment conceived in this way aims to confer a benefit... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Punishment is justified as a means of teaching a moral lesson to those who commit crimes, and perhaps to community members more generally.

    Punishment conceived in this way aims to confer a benefit on the offender: the benefit of moral education.

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    One more mixed view worth noting holds that punishment is justified as a means of teaching a moral lesson to those who commit crimes, and perhaps to community members more generally (the seminal articulations of this view are H. Morris 1981 and Hampton 1984; for a more recent account, see Demetriou 2012; for criticism, see Deigh 1984, Shafer-Landau 1991). Like standard consequentialist accounts, the moral education view acknowledges that punishment’s role in reducing crime is a central part of its rationale (see, e.g., Hampton 1984: 211). But education theorists also take seriously the Hegelia...

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