Placing Blame A Theory of the Criminal Law

by Moore, Michael S.

• ISBN13: 9780199599493
• ISBN10: 0199599491
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.

Author Biography

Michael S. Moore is Charles R. Walgreen Jr., University Chair and Centre for Advanced study Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Illinois.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xv
Table of Statutes	p. xvii
Table of Cases	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
A Theory of Criminal Law Theories	p. 3
The Theory of Criminal Law's Function
Closet Retributivism	p. 83
The Moral Worth of Retribution	p. 104
Justifying Retributivism	p. 153
The Theory of the General Part: The Theory of Responsibility
The Nature of Moral Responsibility	p. 189
The Independent Moral Significance of Wrongdoing	p. 191
The Elements of Responsibility: Wrongdoing and Culpability	p. 249
The Nature of Wrong doing	p. 249
The Nature of Human Action	p. 249
More on Act and Crime	p. 251
The Nature of Causation	p. 331
Causation, Rights-Violations, and Wrongdoing	p. 333
Foreseeing Harm Opaquely	p. 363
The Nature of Culpability	p. 401
The Nature of Mental States	p. 401
Prima Facie Moral Culpability	p. 403
Mind, Brain, and the Unconscious	p. 420
Intentions and Mens Rea	p. 449
The Nature of Excuse	p. 479
Causation and the Excuses	p. 481
Choice, Character, and Excuse	p. 548
The Agents Who Can Be Responsible: The Nature of Personhood	p. 593
Mental Illness and Responsibility	p. 595
An Overview of the Criminal Law's Theory of the Person	p. 610
The Theory of the Special Part: Theories of Legislation and of Wrongful Action
The Theory of Proper Legislative Aim	p. 637
A Non-Exclusionary Theory of Legislative Aim: Taking Aim at Moral Wrongdoing	p. 639
The Theory of Moral Wrongfulness	p. 667
Torture and the Balance of Evils	p. 669
The Theory of the Limits of Criminal Legislation	p. 737
Liberty's Limits on Legislation	p. 739
References	p. 796
Index	p. 831
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