Placing Blame - A Theory of the Criminal Law

About the author

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), Act and Crime (OUP, 1993), and Law and Psychiatry (CUP, 1984).

Summary

Michael Moore is of the leading Anglo-American legal theorists and this text is widely regarded as the leading modern statement of the retributivist theory of punishment and of that theory's systematic application to criminal law doctrine.

Product details

• Authors: Michael S. Moore, Moore Michael S.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2010
• EAN: 9780199599493
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959949-3
• No. of pages: 872
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 238 mm x 48 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, Clinical psychology, 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