Retributive Punishment - The Basic Desert

One of the leading justifications for legal punishment is what we could call retributive punishment. It's a backward looking justification, and it's grounded in the notion of just deserts. The individual needs to be given their just deserts. So unlike theories and punishment that aim as they like deterrence or incapacitation or rehabilitation,. we primitivist round punishment and the blameworthiness and desert of offenders. A. If i the free will sceptics are correct, then one of the leadingjustifications for punishment is off the table because no one really is is deserving. That's a big one my i mean!