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Punishment is justified as an intrinsically appropriate response to wrongdoing because it is deserved.

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1.Wrongdoing deserves punishment.
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2.A deserved response to wrongdoing is intrinsically appropriate.
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1.P.F. Strawson and consequentialists argue that reactive attitudes like indignation ground punishment in emotional responses, not metaphysical desert.
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2.If desert is reducible to socially contingent reactive attitudes, punishment cannot be intrinsically appropriate independent of its social effects.
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3.A response that derives its legitimacy entirely from contingent attitudes is justified instrumentally, not intrinsically.
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1.Desert claims require an independent criterion of proportionality, but retributivism provides no non-circular standard for matching punishment to wrongdoing.
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2.Without such a standard, 'deserved punishment' reduces to an intuitive judgment that cannot justify any specific penal practice.
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Some abolitionists, however, argue that we should seek to eliminate the concept of crime from our social vocabulary: we should talk and think not of ‘crimes’, but of ‘conflicts’ or ‘troubles’ (Christie 1977; Hulsman 1986). One motivation for this might be the thought that ‘crime’ entails punishment as the appropriate response: but that is not so, since we could imagine a system of criminal law without punishment. To define something as a ‘crime’ does indeed imply that some kind of public response is appropriate, since it is to define it as a kind of wrong that properly concerns the whole commu...

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