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Criminal Law and Sentencing: What Goes with Free Will?

Abstract

This Article notes that increasing numbers of scholars have argued that minimizing our collective belief in the possibility of genuine free will and moral responsibility would likely create a more humane, compassionate, enlightened, and generally progressive criminal justice and sentencing system. As it turns out, though, we must instead conclude that such optimism does not seem warranted.