Crime, Law, & Punishment | Philosophy Tube

When people break the law they get arrested by the police and punished by the courts - prison, a fine, whatever. But why? What's the philosophical purpose of legal punishment? Does it benefit society, and if so how exactly? Is it moral? Let's compare consequentialism and retributivism.

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Russ Shafer-Landau, “Retributivism and Desert,” in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

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