Harms and Culpability

by Simester, Andrew; Smith, A. T. H.

• ISBN13: 9780198260578
• ISBN10: 0198260571
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-10-31
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

The present volume draws together original and significant essays from a number of leading authorities which identify areas of the modern criminal law where there are significant conceptual difficulties. The project developed from a series of seminars in Cambridge University, in which leading Anglo-American philosophers, criminal lawyers and legal theorists explored subjects such as attempts, intention, justification, excuses, coercion, complicity, drug-dealing and criminal harm. The topics covered in this impressive collection were chosen for their topicality as well as their theoretical and practical significance.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Introduction	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Contributors	p. xi
Criminalization and the Role of Theory	p. 1
Subjectivism, Objectivism and Criminal Attempts	p. 19
Competing Theories of Justification: Deeds V. Reasons	p. 45
Why Distinguish Intention from Foresight?	p. 71
Justifications and Reasons	p. 103
Making Excuses	p. 131
Crimes of Ulterior Intent Jeremy Horder	p. 153
Criminal LIability in A Medical Context: the Treatment of Good Intentions	p. 173
Structuring the Criminal Code: Functional Approaches to Complicity, Incomplete Offences, and General Defences	p. 195
Coercion, Threats, and the Puzzle of Blackmail	p. 215
Dealing with Drug Dealing	p. 239
Extending the Harm Principle: 'Remote' Harms and Fair Imputation	p. 259
Index	p. 277
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