„This is an excellent book. Corlett explores both foundational issues pertaining to free will, moral responsibility, retribution, and mercy and also the more “applied„ issues relating to punishment. His scope is extraordinarily wide, and the combination of theoretical and applied analysis is distinctive and admirable. He is a pioneer in work on collective responsibility - an important and often neglected aspect of the analysis of moral responsibility. Anyone interested in the interconnected issues of moral responsibility and punishment should read this book!“
(John Martin Fischer, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, author of „Responsibility and Control“ and „The Metaphysics of Free Will“)

From the reviews of the third edition:

„J. Angelo Corlett, in Responsibility and Punishment 3^rd edition, argues that to take justice seriously, the state is obligated to punish criminal offenders like the Garridos in proportion to the harm they have caused. He argues for a theory of retributive punishment in which criminals receive punishment based on the degree to which they are responsible. … I recommend it to anyone interested in questions of moral responsibility and questions about punishment.“ (Josef Thomas Simpson, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol.13 (48), November, 2009)