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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Legal Punishment and Crime Reduction: A Reassessment -- 2 In Search of the Retributive Element -- 3 Punishment and Moral Communication -- 4 Merging the Elements -- 5 Criminal Procedure and the Moral Authority to Punish -- 6 A Mixed Theory of Sentencing -- 7 User Fees and Collateral Legal Consequences -- 8 Toward Realism about the Prospects of State Punishment -- Bibliography -- Index.

Censuring equalization retributivism -- The case for retributive sentencing -- Imprisonable offenses -- B-level analysis -- Minimum and extreme conditions of confinement -- Initial challenges to prisoners' rights -- Work, welfare, and responsibility -- In defense of more permeable prisons -- Retained civil rights -- Access to recreation and entertainment -- Privatization, abolition, or reform

The question addressed is whether prison inmates have a moral right of access to recreation, entertainment and diversion. The interests grounding such a right are first discussed. I then consider whether and to what extent a theory of legal punishment that incorporates both retributive and crime reduction aims, while giving primacy to the former, supports such a right. It is argued that such a theory supports a moral right to at least moderate levels of prisoner access to recreation, entertainment and diversion. Two further issues are then discussed - first, whether the state has an obligation to actually facilitate such access as opposed to simply not interfering with it, and second, what restrictions the state can reasonably impose on such access.

The issue discussed is whether policies of imposing increasingly lengthy prison sentences on serious criminal offenders reduce crime. The empirical evidence for the deterrence and incapacitation effects of incarceration is first examined and found to be of limited help in answering the question whether lengthy prison sentences reduce crime. Conceptual and normative analysis of deterrence and incapacitation suggest that we have little reason to believe that the general use of lengthy prison terms produces more good than harm for society, especially if the burdens of and alternatives to such prison terms are taken into account.

Presents the case against state-sponsored gambling on moral and other grounds; US. Encouragement of undesirable attitudes and character traits, social benefits and burdens, regressivity, and commercialization of play.