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It cuts against our retributionist instincts, but holds out the promise of achieving crime reduction while also having less recourse to prison.

More Punishment, More Crime 2009

Labor's Lost Love: The Obama White House was afraid to directly confront the labor unions 'retributionist drive to oust Lincoln in favor of Lt. Gov.

Election Day Themes Emerge 2010

But, to be honest, few things make me start to reconsider that opinion more than the naked retributionist opinions that appear whenever the death penalty is discussed in certain forums.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Terror, Torture, and Death in Public Opinion 2009

The idea has never really occurred to me before, but I suppose that it is inevitable that the generation growing up today are going to be conditioned disfigured by the fearful, retributionist atmosphere that prevails at the moment.

The Counter-Counter Culture 2008

But your view of the criminal system as serving a purely retributionist function and mutually exclusive from the utilitarian function of military detainment is certainly not true from a functional or historical perspective.

The Volokh Conspiracy » What Does the Padilla Verdict Mean?: 2007

I don’t think there’s any way for someone with that perspective to answer a retributionist who sees punishment as an end in itself.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Positive feedback and strategic enforcement 2009