Philosophical foundations of criminal law

Philosophical foundations of criminal law / edited by R.A. Duff and Stuart P. Green.

This volume gathers leading theorists to present original work on a range of foundational questions in criminal law theory. It provides an overview of current philosophical work on the criminal law, setting an agenda for further research and debate.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Duff, Antony, Green, Stuart P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Philosophical foundations of law.
Subjects:
Criminal law > Philosophy.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Law.
Criminal law > Philosophy
Strafrecht.
Rechtsfilosofie.
Great Britain.
Criminalization.
Criminal justice.
Criminal liability.
Criminal law.
Philosophy of law.
Legal theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: searching for foundations / R.A. Duff and Stuart P. Green
  • pt. 1. Criminal law and political theory. Criminal law as public law / Malcolm Thorburn
  • Republicanism and the foundations of criminal law / Richard Dagger
  • Political theory and the criminal law / Matt Matravers
  • Foundations of state punishment in modern liberal democracies: toward a genealogy of American criminal law / Markus D. Dubber
  • Responsibility for the criminal law / Alice Ristroph
  • Responsibility, citizenship, and criminal law / R.A. Duff
  • pt. 2. The substance of criminal law. The resurgence of character: responsibility in the context of criminalization / Nicola Lacey
  • Intention as a marker of moral culpability and legal punishability / Michael S. Moore
  • Wrongdoing and motivation / Victor Tadros
  • Understanding the topography of moral and criminal law norms / Kenneth W. Simons
  • Beyond the special part / Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
  • Just prevention: preventive rationales and the limits of the criminal law / Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner
  • The ontological problem of 'risk' and 'endangerment' in criminal law / Peter Westen
  • The de minimis 'defence' to criminal liability / Douglas Husak
  • Just deserts in unjust societies / Stuart P. Green
  • pt. 3. Process and punishment. Groundwork for a jurisprudence of criminal procedure / Paul Roberts
  • The substance-procedure relationship in criminal law / Donald A. Dripps
  • Two kinds of retributivism / Mitchell N. Berman
  • pt. 4. Across borders and into the future. Piercing sovereignty: a rationale for international jurisdiction over crimes that do not cross international borders / Christopher Heath Wellman
  • Criminal law and morality at war / Adil Ahmad Haque
  • Criminal liability and 'smart' environments / Mireille Hildebrandt.

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