Act and Crime - The Philosophy of Action and Its Implications for Criminal Law

Zusatztext ...one of America's leading legal theorists...a book that repays close study and which should retain its appeal for all students of the criminal law for many years to come. Informationen zum Autor Professor Michael Moore holds the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair at the Univerity of Illinois. He is jointly appointed as Professor of Law in the College of Law and as Professor of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He also holds an appointment as a Professor with the Center for Advanced Studies. His major works include Causation and Responsibility (OUP, 2009), Placing Blame (OUP, 1997), and Law and Psychiatry (CUP, 1984). Klappentext What implications are there for the criminal law from the philosophy of action? Providing a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by both Anglo-American criminal law and the morality that underlies it, Moore develops a coherent theory of action in philosophy and assesses its effects on criminal law. Zusammenfassung In print for the first time in over ten years, Act and Crime provides a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by both Anglo-American criminal law and the morality that underlies it. The book defends the view that human actions are always volitionally caused bodily movements and nothing else. The theory is used to illuminate three major problems in the drafting and the interpretation of criminal codes: 1) what the voluntary act requirementboth does and should require; 2) what complex descriptions of actions prohibited by criminal codes both do and should require (in addition to the doing of a voluntary act); and 3) when two actions are 'the same' for purposes of assessing whether multiple prosecutions and multiple punishments are warranted. Thebook both contributes to the development of a coherent theory of action in philosophy, and it provides both legislators and judges (and the lawyers who argue to both) a grounding in three of the most basic elements of criminal liability....

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• Authors: Michael S. Moore, Michael S. (Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Moore, Moore Michael S.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2010
• EAN: 9780199599509
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959950-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / Jurisprudence, Clinical psychology, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law