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The Deterrence Case

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The deterrence case for punishment: penalties are justified by the harms they prevent — crimes deterred, the dangerous restrained, the correctable reformed.

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The theory prices sentences like guardrails: high enough to turn the next offender, no higher than the public's protection requires.