Husak, Douglas N., 1948-
The philosophy of criminal law : selected essays / by Douglas Husak. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xiii, 458 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Does criminal liability require an act? -- Motive and criminal liability -- The costs to criminal theory of supposing that intentions are irrelevant to permissibility -- Transferred intent -- The nature and justifiability of nonconsummate offenses -- Strict liability, justice, and proportionality -- The sequential principle of relative culpability -- Willful ignorance, knowledge, and the 'equal culpability' thesis : a study of the deeper significance of the principle of legality -- Rapes without rapists : consent and reasonable mistake -- Mistake of law and culpability -- On the supposed priority of justification to excuse -- Partial defenses -- The 'but everybody does that!' defense -- The de minimis 'defense' to criminal liability -- Why punish the deserving? -- Malum prohibitum and retributivism -- 'Already punished enough'.
9780199585038 (cloth : alk. paper) 0199585032 (cloth : alk. paper)
2009053073
GBA9B0806 bnb
015421123 Uk
Criminal law--Philosophy.
K5018 / .H873 2010
345.001
The philosophy of criminal law : selected essays / by Douglas Husak. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xiii, 458 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Does criminal liability require an act? -- Motive and criminal liability -- The costs to criminal theory of supposing that intentions are irrelevant to permissibility -- Transferred intent -- The nature and justifiability of nonconsummate offenses -- Strict liability, justice, and proportionality -- The sequential principle of relative culpability -- Willful ignorance, knowledge, and the 'equal culpability' thesis : a study of the deeper significance of the principle of legality -- Rapes without rapists : consent and reasonable mistake -- Mistake of law and culpability -- On the supposed priority of justification to excuse -- Partial defenses -- The 'but everybody does that!' defense -- The de minimis 'defense' to criminal liability -- Why punish the deserving? -- Malum prohibitum and retributivism -- 'Already punished enough'.
9780199585038 (cloth : alk. paper) 0199585032 (cloth : alk. paper)
2009053073
GBA9B0806 bnb
015421123 Uk
Criminal law--Philosophy.
K5018 / .H873 2010
345.001