Reflections on Crime and Culpability - Problems and Puzzles

List of contents

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.

About the author

Larry Alexander is the Warren Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. He is the author or co-author of five monographs, including Demystifying Legal Reasoning (Cambridge, 2008) with Emily Sherwin and Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (Cambridge, 2009) with Kimberly Ferzan. He is also the editor of four anthologies, and the author or co-author of multiple articles, essays, and book chapters on topics of legal theory, constitutional law, and moral philosophy.Kimberly Kessler Ferzan is Harrison Robertson Professor of Law and an affiliated member of the Philosophy Department at the University of Virginia. She is the co-editor of two anthologies, the author of numerous articles in criminal law theory, and the co-author of Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (Cambridge, 2009), with Larry Alexander. Her paper, 'Beyond Crime and Commitment', was selected for the 2013 American Philosophical Association's Berger Memorial Prize.

Summary

This book is for students and scholars interested in criminal law theory. It undertakes questions that very few theorists have addressed, particularly about our understanding of culpability, and collects them in one monograph that offers a unified approach to addressing them.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Alexander, Larry (University of San Diego) Alexander, Larry (University of San Diego) Ferzan Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Kimberly Kessler (University of Virginia) Ferzan, Ferzan Kimberly Kessler
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781107159945
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15994-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Law, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / Jurisprudence, Legal aspects of criminology, Jurisprudence & general issues, Jurisprudence and general issues, Criminology: legal aspects, Criminal law: procedure and offences