Michael Moore is of the leading Anglo-American legal theorists and this text is widely regarded as the leading modern statement of the retributivist theoryof punishment and of that theory's systematic application to criminal law doctrine. INDICE: Introduction; 1: A Theory of Criminal Law Theories; Part One: The Theory of Criminal Law's Function; 2: Closet Retributivism; 3: The Moral Worth of Retribution; 4: Justifying Retributivism; Part Two: The Theory of the General Part: The Theory of Responsibility; A. The Nature of Moral Responsibility; 5: The Independent Moral Significance of Wrongdoing; B. The Elements of Responsibility: Wrongdoing and Culpability; 1: The Nature of Wrongdoing; a. the Nature of Human Action; 6: Moore on Act and Crime; b. The Nature of Causation;7: Causation, Rights-Violations, and Wrongdoing; 8: Foreseeing Harm Opaquely;2: The Nature of Culpability; a. The Nature of Mental States; 9: Prima Facie Moral Culpability; 10: Mind, Brain, and the Unconscious; 11: Intentions and Mens Rea; The Nature of Excuse; 12: Causation and the Excusescuse; 13: Choice, Character, and Excuse; Part Three: The Theory of the Special Part: Theories of Legislation and of Wrongful Action; A. The Theory of Proper Legislative Aim; 16: A Non-Exclusionary Theory of Legislative Aim: Taking Aim at Moral Wrongdoing; B. The Theory of Moral Wrongfulness; 17: Torture and the Balance of Evils; C. The Theory of the Limits of Criminal Legislation; 18: Liberty's Limits on Legislation
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959949-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
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- Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2010
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