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Can the law do without retributivism? Comments on Erin Kellys The Limits of Blame.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-020-09542-9
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Erin Kellys The Limits of Blame presents a critique of our current overly punitive legal system and champions a system of criminal justice that does not traffic in moral blame and is free of retributivist elements. This commentary questions the viability of such a system, and ultimately suggests that there is not much distance between a more perfect retributivist system and the kind of more nuanced and humane system of criminal justice that Kelly envisions.

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