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.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Klappentext
This book presents a comprehensive theory of a culpability-based criminal law.
