Reflections on crime and culpability problems and puzzles

Alexander, Larry

Reflections on crime and culpability problems and puzzles Kimberly Kessler Ferzan - UK Cambridge University Press 2018 - 223p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; 1. Crime and Culpability: Recounting the Basic Picture; Part I. Problems and Puzzles of Risking: 2. Risking Other People's Riskings; 3. Risks and "Other Law" Beliefs; 4. Omissions and Culpable Riskings: Problems, Problems; 5. Is there a Case for Proxy Crimes? Part II. Problems and Puzzles of Culpability: 6. Moral Ignorance; 7. The Violator of Deontological Constraints; 8. Mass Murders, Recidivists, and Volume Discounts; Part III. Problems and Puzzles of Punishment: 9. The Problem of Psychological Disconnection between the Culpable Actor and the Person to be Punished; 10. Distributing Retributive Desert; Part IV. Conclusion; 11. Conclusion; Index.

"In 2009 Larry Alexander and Kimberly Ferzan published Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law. The book set out a theory that those who deserve punishment should receive punishment commensurate with, but no greater than, that which they deserve. Reflections on Crime and Culpability: Problems and Puzzles expands on their innovative ideas on the application of punishment in criminal law. Theorists working in criminal law theory presuppose or ignore puzzles that lurk beneath the surface. Now those who wish to examine these topics will have one monograph that combines the disparate puzzles in criminal law through a unified approach to culpability. Along with some suggestions as to how they might resolve the puzzles, Alexander and Ferzan lay out the arguments and analysis so future scholars can engage with questions about our understanding of culpability that very few have addressed"--

9781316612613

2018021297


Punishment--Philosophy.
Criminal law--Philosophy.
LAW / Criminal Law / General.

K5103 / .A443 2018

345.001 / AL-R

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