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  1. Censure theory still best accounts for punishment of the guilty: Reply to Montague.Thaddeus Metz - 2009 - Philosophia 37 (1):113-23.
    In an article previously published in this journal, Phillip Montague critically surveys and rejects a handful of contemporary attempts to explain why state punishment is morally justified. Among those targeted is one of my defences of the censure theory of punishment, according to which state punishment is justified because the political community has a duty to express disapproval of those guilty of injustice. My defence of censure theory supposes, per argumentum, that there is always some defeasible moral reason for the (...)
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