Larry Alexander

Crime and Culpability (eBook, PDF)

A Theory of Criminal Law

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a comprehensive overview of what the criminal law would look like if organised around the principle that those who deserve punishment should receive punishment commensurate with, but no greater than, that which they deserve. Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan argue that desert is a function of the actor's culpability, and that culpability is a function of the risks of harm to protected interests that the actor believes he is imposing and his reasons for acting in the face of those risks. The authors deny that resultant harms, as well as unperceived risks, affect the actor's desert. They thus reject punishment for inadvertent negligence as well as for intentions or preparatory acts that are not risky. Alexander and Ferzan discuss the reasons for imposing risks that negate or mitigate culpability, the individuation of crimes, and omissions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511501333
• Artikelnr.: 38204233

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.