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    The state's response to crimes should focus on rehabilita... — Carmelics
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    The state's response to crimes should focus on rehabilitation rather than retribution, treating offenders as morally responsible agents but not blaming them.

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    • 1.The affective aspect of blame — its realisation in negative reactive attitudes such as anger, hatred, and contempt — has pernicious effects when manifested in the criminal law.
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    • 2.Emotion-laden blame fosters all-encompassing condemnations of offenders, rather than condemnation merely of their crimes.
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    • 3.Affective blame has contributed to overcriminalisation, overly harsh sentencing, and mass incarceration.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility, as P.F. Strawson argues in 'Freedom and Resentment', is constitutively linked to reactive attitudes like blame and resentment.
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    • 2.To treat offenders as responsible agents while systematically withholding blame is to engage in a performative contradiction that undermines the very respect it claims to extend.
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    • 3.A system that rehabilitates without blaming treats offenders as objects of therapeutic management, not as moral equals accountable to shared norms.
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    • 1.The argument commits a genetic fallacy: the pernicious social effects of affective blame do not refute the independent normative justification for proportionate retributive censure.
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    • 2.Antony Duff's communicative theory demonstrates that state punishment can express warranted blame through hard treatment without collapsing into hatred or contempt.
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    • 3.Eliminating blame from criminal justice severs the expressive link between punishment and the moral wrongness of the act, reducing punishment to mere social hygiene.
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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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