Webindividuals with a retributive orientation conceptualize justice as the unilateral imposition of just deserts against the offender. In contrast, individuals with a restorative. Webmurphy argues in several works that therapeutic approaches to punishment are in competition with commitments to justice. In retribution, justice, and therapy, he. Webthose who find the intentional infliction of suffering unsettling but who remain convinced that desert is a necessary part of the justification of punishment, like murphy. Webthe appeal of retributive justice as a theory of punishment rests in part on direct intuitive support, in part on the claim that it provides a better account of when. Murphy, who murdered two police officers before being killed in a bloodbath in a suburban neighborhood, was racist, antisemitic and convinced that. Webretributive and restorative justice present two different responses to wrongdoing: One that focuses on addressing the moral wrong through punitive sanctions. (1) the severity of the wrong, and (2) the offender’s blameworthiness. The broader aim of this article is to outline an alternative. Webyet, some of the public opinion but, rather, their doubts about. Webretributivism, the idea that what justifies criminal punishment is that it is deserved for past criminal wrongdoing, famously (or notoriously) underwent a revival in the 1970s—a.
