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Informationen zum Autor Paul H. Robinson is the Colin S. Diver Professor of Law! University of Pennsylvania Law School! USA. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together a collection of essays, many of them scholarly classics, which form part of the debate around three questions central to criminal law theory: firstly, what conduct should be necessary for criminal liability, and what sufficient? Secondly, what culpability should be necessary for criminal liability, and what sufficient. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction! Paul H. Robinson and Joshua Samuel Barton. Part I The Structure of Criminal Law: Should the criminal law abandon the actus reus-mens rea distinction?! Paul H. Robinson; Imputed criminal liability! Paul H. Robinson; General defences! Paul H. Robinson; Distinguishing justifications from excuses! Kent Greenawalt; A functional analysis of criminal law! Paul H. Robinson. Part II The Limits of Criminal Law: Offence Conduct: Immorality and treason! H.L.A. Hart; The search for limits: law and morals! Herbert L. Packer; The overreach of the criminal law! Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins; The collapse of the harm principle! Bernard E. Harcourt; Rethinking the offense principle! A.P. Simester and Andrew Von Hirsch. Part III The Limits of Criminal Law: Offender Culpability: Strict liability in the criminal law! Richard A. Wasserstrom; Crime and the Criminal Law: a review! H.L.A. Hart; A strict accountability approach to criminal responsibility! Jay Campbell; The decline of innocence! Sanford H. Kadish; The theory of criminal negligence: a comparative analysis! George P. Fletcher; The abolition of the special defense of insanity! Norval Morris; Excusing crime! Sanford H. Kadish; The utility of desert! Paul H. Robinson and John M. Darley; Are we responsible for who we are? The challenge for criminal law theory in the defenses of coercive indoctrination and 'rotten social background'! Paul H. Robinson. Name index. ...
