Criminalising Carelessness

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Inadvertent Negligence
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5099-9605-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Can we hold individuals criminally responsible for harms their actions caused when, at the time of acting, they did not realise that their actions risked bringing about those harms?

This persistent and unresolved question strikes at the heart of criminal liability for inadvertent negligence in legal systems worldwide. This open access volume brings together a diverse group of contributors to discuss the criminalisation of inadvertent negligence. Significantly, the authors hail from two very different legal traditions - Anglo-American and Germanic - which have to date not engaged in dialogue about this important criminal law topic. This edited volume addresses this gap in the literature.

The contributions to this collection explore the similarities and differences between legal traditions, and foster cross-jurisdictional exchange, whilst critically reflecting on the normative strengths and weaknesses of different legal vantage points. The collection accordingly incorporates theoretical, philosophical and psychological insights from experienced scholars and new voices, thereby offering a multidimensional account of why, and under what conditions, those who are unaware of a particular risk of harm at the time of acting can, or cannot, justifiably be punished when those harms do result.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirsch, Philipp-Alexander

Stark, Findlay

Weigel, Johannes Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Philipp-Alexander Hirsch (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) Findlay Stark (Univerity of Cambridge, UK) and Johannes S. Weigel (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany)

Part One: Legal, Philosophical and Psychological Foundations
1. Criminal Negligence and the Constitution: A Canadian-German Perspective, Morten Boe (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany)
2. Inadvertent Negligence and Moral Luck, Boris Burghardt (Philipps Universitaet, Marburg, Germany)
3. The Semantics of Avoidability, Manuel Cordes (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany)
4. Why Humans Fail to Act on Their Intentions: Insights from Cognitive Psychology, Jan Rummel (Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany)

Part Two: Making Sense of Criminal Negligence
5. Fundamental Questions on Inadvertent Negligence from the Perspective of German Criminal Law, Gunnar Duttge (Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen, Germany)
6. The Notion of Reasonableness in Connection with Negligence as a Culpability Level, Marcia Baron (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
7. Negligence, Reasons-Responsiveness, and Quality of Will, Alexander Greenberg (University of Surrey, UK)
8. Unconscious Negligence from the Perspective of Functionalism, Svenja Schwartz (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany)

Part Three: Criminal Negligence: Indefensible or, at least, Problematic
9. Liability to Criminal Punishment Requires the Culpability of Chosen Wrongdoing, a Culpability That Merely Negligent Actors Lack, Heidi M. Hurd and Michael S. Moore (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
10. Against the Criminalization of Inadvertent Negligence - a State-Centric Account, Malcolm Thorburn (University of Toronto, Canada)
11. On the Criminal Liability of Inadvertent Negligence, Georgia Stefanopoulu (Business & Law School Berlin, Germany)
12. Constrained Negligence, Findlay Stark (University of Cambridge, UK)
13. The Flawed Link: Negligence, Character, and Cognitive Psychology in German and Anglo-American Criminal Law, Johannes S. Weigel (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau and University of Goettingen, Germany)
14. Chosen Negligence, Mark Dsouza (University College London, UK)
15. Two Models of Carelessness: Extraordinary Imputation vs. Breach of Duty, Jan C. Schuhr (Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany)

Über Autor(innen)

Weigel, Johannes Stefan
Johannes Stefan Weigel is Doctoral Researcher in the Independent Research Group " Criminal Law Theory" at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany.

Hirsch, Philipp-Alexander
Philipp-Alexander Hirsch is Leader of the Independent Research Group "Theory of Criminal Law" at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and the Law in Freiburg, Germany

Stark, Findlay
Findlay Stark is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Philipp-Alexander Hirsch is Leader of the Independent Research Group "Criminal Law Theory" at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg, Germany.
Findlay Stark is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Johannes Stefan Weigel is Doctoral Researcher in the Independent Research Group "Criminal Law Theory" at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany.