Placing blame : a general theory of the criminal law /
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| Author / Creator: | Moore, Michael S., 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1997. |
| Description: | xxi, 849 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6163837 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. A Theory of Criminal Law Theories
- Part One. The Theory of Punishment
- 2. Closet Retributivism
- 3. The Moral Worth of Retribution
- Part Two. The Theory of Responsibility
- 4. The Place of Moral Theory in the Criminal Law
- Part Three. The Theories of Action, Intention, Causation, Justification, And Excuse
- A. The Nature of Human Action
- 5. The Nature of Basic and Complex Actions
- B. The Nature of Mental States
- 6. Mind, Brain and the Unconscious
- 7. Intentions and Mens Rea
- C. The Nature of Causation
- 8. Thomson's Preliminaries about Causation and Rights
- D. The Nature of Justification
- 9. Torture and the Balance of Evils
- E. The Nature of Excuse
- 10. Mental Illness and Responsibility
- 11. Causation and the Excuses
- 12. Choice, Character and Excuse
- Part Four. The Theory of Personhood
- 13. The Moral and Metaphysical Sources of the Criminal Law
- Part Five. Principles of The Special Part
- 14. The Limits of Legislation
- 15. Sandelian Anti-Liberalism
- 16. Privacy and the Constitutional Limits on Criminal Legislation
- 17. Legality and Privacy Applied: Vagueness, Proportionality, Homosexuals in Schools, and Abortion