Just Punishment? A Virtue Ethics Approach to Prison Reform in the United States
Thesis advisor: James F. Keenan === The United States penal system, fragmented by contradictory impulses toward retribution and incapacitation, is in need of coherent objectives for its prisons and jails. This dissertation draws upon the resources of virtue ethics to suggest a new model of justice,...
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Boston College
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3761 |