Husak, Douglas N.,  1948- <br/><br/>
The philosophy of criminal law :  selected essays / 
by Douglas Husak. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  2010. 
 - xiii, 458 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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'. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199585038 (cloth : alk. paper) 0199585032 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009053073 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA9B0806  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015421123  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criminal law--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K5018  / .H873 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>345.001