The function of punishment in the “civil
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Kevin M. Carlsmith; John Monahan; Alison Evans
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Two experiments find that support for civil commitment procedures for sexually violent predators is based primarily upon the retributive rather than incapacitative goals of respondents. Two discrete samples composed of students (__N__ = 175) and jury‐eligible citizens (__N__ = 200) comp