Action and Value in Criminal Law

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-19-826079-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

This is a challenging collection of essays on the theory of criminal law by leading philosophers from the UK, USA, and Canada. Ranging across such central issues as moral luck, mistake, and mental illness, Action and Value in Criminal Law aims to reorientate the study of criminal law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shute, Stephen

Gardner, John

Horder, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The Logic of Criminal Law

- 1: Alan Brudner: Agency and Welfare in the Penal Law

- 2: R.A. Duff: Acting, Trying, and Criminal Liability

- 3: Jennifer Hornsby: On What's Intentionally Done

- 4: Andrew Ashworth: Taking the Consequences

- 5: Michael S. Moore: Foreseeing Harm Opaquely

- 6: Douglas Husak and Andrew von Hirsch: Culpability and Mistake of Law

- 7: George P. Fletcher: The Nature of Justification

- 8: Paul H. Robinson: Should the Criminal Law Abandon the Actus Reus/Mens Rea Distinction?

- 9: Richard H.S. Tur: Subjectivism and Objectivism: Towards Synthesis

- 10: Stephen J. Morse: Diminished Capacity

- 11: K.W.M. Fulford: Value, Action, Mental Illness, and the Law