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- Title: Punishment as Societal-Defense
- Author : Phillip Montague
- Release Date : January 23, 1996
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 739 KB
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People punished by law are treated in ways that we consider immoral in other contexts. In Punishment as Societal-Defense, Phillip Montague develops a new theory of punishment that, instead of justifying it on the basis of deterrence or retribution, constructs it as analogous to individual self-defense. If people are justified in defending themselves against wrongful aggression, Montague argues, the same principles of distributive justice underlie punishment as societal defense.