Larry Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

Crime and Culpability

A Theory of Criminal Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 760g
• ISBN-13: 9780521518772
• ISBN-10: 0521518776
• Artikelnr.: 26056844

Autorenporträt

Larry Alexander is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He has authored and co-authored five books, most recently Is There a Right to Freedom of Expression and, with Emily Sherwin, Demystifying Legal Reasoning.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: Retribution and the Criminal Law: 1. Criminal law,
punishment, and desert; Part II. The Culpable Act: 2. The essence of
culpability: acts manifesting insufficient concern for the legally
protected interests of others; 3. Negligence; 4. Defeaters of culpability;
Part III. The Immateriality of Resulting Harm to Legally Protected
Interests: 5. Only culpability, not resulting harm, affects desert; 6. When
are inchoate crimes culpable and why?; 7. The locus of culpability; Part
IV. A Proposed Code: 8. What a culpability-based criminal code might look
like.