Abstract
My relationship with Jean Hampton was generally that of friendly adversary.1 We disagreed on a great deal—her Christianity against my then militantly secular worldview, her assumptions of trust and love against my more cautious and even cynical assumptions, her refusal to endorse the vindictive feelings that seemed (at least in some circumstances) so very right to me. And yet we agreed on a great deal as well—a tendency to get philosophical inspiration from Kant and the Kantian tradition and the belief that some form of retribution has an important role to play in the practice of criminal punishment. We were engaged by each other’s perspective and would frequently argue with each other—most extensively in the dialogue we conducted in our co-authored book Forgiveness and Mercy, published in 1988.2
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