The Purposes of Punishment
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Punishment is justified in four ways: retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation — aims that frequently conflict with one another.
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A sentence long enough to incapacitate can undercut the rehabilitation it also claims to pursue.
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A system pursuing all four at once will satisfy none of them completely.