Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Can Twenty-first Century Punishment Policies Be Justified in Principle? -- 2. Is Twenty-first Century Punishment Post-desert? -- 3. What Does Wrongdoing Deserve? -- 4. Responsibility, Restoration, and Retribution -- 5. Punishment and Desert-adjusted Utilitarianism -- 6. The Future of State Punishment: The Role of Public Opinion in Sentencing -- 7. A Political Theory of Imprisonment for Public Protection -- 8. Terror as a Theory of Punishment -- 9. Can Above-desert Penalties Be Justified by Competing Deontological Theories? -- 10. Never Mind the Pain, It's a Measure! Justifying Measures as Part of the Dutch Bifurcated System of Sanctions -- 11. Retributivism, Proportionality, and the Challenge of the Drug Court Movement -- 12. Drug Treatment Courts as Communicative Punishment -- 13. Punishment Futures: Th e Desert-model Debate and the Importance of the Criminal Law Context -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.