 Another approach consistent with skepticism about moral responsibility is moral education theories. These theories typically maintain that punishment can be justified only if it benefits the person being punished. An analogy is sometimes drawn with the justification for punishing children—i.e., children are typically not punished to exact retribution, but rather to educate them morally. Jean Hampton, for instance, writes, “punishment should not be justified as a deserved evil, but rather as an attempt, by someone who cares, to improve a wayward person” (1984: 237). On Hampton’s moral education account, punishment is justified if and only if it gets the wrongdoer 