Reflections on Crime and Culpability

Reflections on Crime and Culpability
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108668550

In 2009, Larry Alexander and Kimberly Ferzan published Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law. The book set out a theory that those who deserve punishment should receive punishment commensurate with, but no greater than, that which they deserve. Reflections on Crime and Culpability: Problems and Puzzles expands on their innovative ideas on the application of punishment in criminal law. Theorists working in criminal law theory presuppose or ignore puzzles that lurk beneath the surface. Now those who wish to examine these topics will have one monograph that combines the disparate puzzles in criminal law through a unified approach to culpability. Along with some suggestions as to how they might resolve the puzzles, Alexander and Ferzan lay out the arguments and analysis so future scholars can engage with questions about our understanding of culpability that very few have addressed.

Reflections on Crime and Culpability

Reflections on Crime and Culpability
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107159946

Through one coherent retributivist vision of the criminal law, this book explores under examined problems within criminal law theory.

Crime and Culpability

Crime and Culpability
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2009-03-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521518776

This book presents a comprehensive theory of a culpability-based criminal law.

Crime, Reason and History

Crime, Reason and History
Author: Alan Norrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521516463

This book provides a challenging, alternative, critical approach to every other text which deals with the criminal law's general principles.

The Philosophy of Criminal Law

The Philosophy of Criminal Law
Author: Douglas N. Husak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199585032

This volume collects 17 of Douglas Husak's influential essays in criminal law theory. The essays span Husak's original and provocative contributions to the major topics in the field, including the grounds of criminal liability, the significance of culpability, the role of defences, and the justification of punishment. The volume includes an extended introduction by the author, drawing together the themes of his work and exploring the goals of criminal theory. Together, the essays present a desert-based analysis of issues in criminal theory that rejects the consequentialist approach more familiar among legal scholars. The foremost concern of these essays is to ensure that the principles and doctrines of the criminal law preserve justice and do not sacrifice individuals for the common welfare. Engagingly written, the essays are accessible to non-specialists and represent an excellent introduction to current issues and debates in the theory of criminal law.

Justice in Extreme Cases

Justice in Extreme Cases
Author: Darryl Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009028286

In Justice in Extreme Cases, Darryl Robinson argues that the encounter between criminal law theory and international criminal law (ICL) can be illuminating in two directions: criminal law theory can challenge and improve ICL, and conversely, ICL's novel puzzles can challenge and improve mainstream criminal law theory. Robinson recommends a 'coherentist' method for discussions of principles, justice and justification. Coherentism recognizes that prevailing understandings are fallible, contingent human constructs. This book will be a valuable resource to scholars and jurists in ICL, as well as scholars of criminal law theory and legal philosophy.

Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities

Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities
Author: Heidi M. Hurd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2018-11-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 131651045X

Engages with the life and work of Larry Alexander to explore puzzles and paradoxes in legal and moral theory.

Self, Others and the State

Self, Others and the State
Author: Arlie Loughnan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108754961

Criminal responsibility is now central to criminal law, but it is in need of re-examination. In the context of Australian criminal laws, Self, Others and the State reassesses the general assumptions made about the rise to prominence of criminal responsibility in the period since around the turn of the twentieth century. It reconsiders the role of criminal responsibility in criminal law, arguing that criminal responsibility is significant because it organises key sets of relations - between self, others and the state - as relations of responsibility. Detailed studies of decisive moments and developments since the turn of the twentieth century, and original explorations of relations of responsibility, expose the complexity and dynamism of criminal responsibility and reveal that it is the means by which matters of subjectivity, relationality and power make themselves felt in the criminal law.

Culpable Carelessness

Culpable Carelessness
Author: Findlay Stark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107038901

A doctrinal and theoretical analysis of culpability for unjustified risk-taking in Anglo-American criminal law.

The Boundaries of the Criminal Law

The Boundaries of the Criminal Law
Author: R.A. Duff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2010-11-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199600554

This is the first book of a series on criminalization - examining the principles and goals that should guide what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. The first volume studies the scope and boundaries of the criminal law - asking what principled limits might be placed on criminalizing behaviour.