Punishment and Responsibility - Essays in the Philosophy of Law

Zusatztext Review from previous edition Punishment and Responsibility is still regarded as one of the cornerstones of both penal philosophy and the burgeoning field of criminal law theory in Britain! Australia! Israel and North America. Its idea of criminal responsibility ... is the inspiration for or counterpoint to almost all serious scholarship in English in the field published over the last 35 years. Informationen zum Autor The Late H.L.A. Hart was Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford from 1952 to 1968. Subsequently he became Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. His other major works include Causation in the Law (with Tony Honoré, OUP 1959), The Concept of Law (OUP 1961) and Law, Liberty and Morality (OUP 1963).; John Gardner has been Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford since 2000. He is a former Fellow of All Souls and Brasenose Colleges in Oxford, and has also taught at King's College London, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, and the University of Texas. His book Offences and Defences is forthcoming from OUP. Klappentext This classic collection of essays! first published in 1968! represents H.L.A. Hart's landmark contribution to the philosophy of criminal responsibility and punishment. Unavailable for ten years! this new edition reproduces the original text! adding a new critical introduction by John Gardner! a leading contemporary criminal law theorist. Zusammenfassung This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, represents H.L.A. Hart's landmark contribution to the philosophy of criminal responsibility and punishment. Unavailable for ten years, this new edition reproduces the original text, adding a new critical introduction by John Gardner, a leading contemporary criminal law theorist. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Prolegomenon to the Principles of Punishment 2: Legal Responsibility and Excuses 3: Murder and the Principles of Punishment: England and the United States 4: Acts of Will and Responsibility 5: Intention and Punishment 6: Negligence, Mens Rea, and Criminal Responsibility 7: Punishment and the Elimination of Responsibility 8: Changing Conceptions of Responsibility 9: Postscript: Responsibility and Retribution ...

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• Authors: Hart, H. L. A. Hart, H. L. A./ Gardner Hart, H.L.A. Hart, H.L.A. (Formerly Professor of Jurisprudence Hart, Herbert L. A. Hart
• Assisted by: John Gardner (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2008
• EAN: 9780199534784
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953478-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / Criminal Law / General, Criminal law & procedure, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Wales / Cymru