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Crime and culpability : a theory of criminal law /
"This book presents a comprehensive overview of what the criminal law would look like if organised around the principle that those who deserve punishment should receive punishment commensurate with, but no greater than, that which they deserve. Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan argue...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One. Introduction : retributivism and the criminal law. Criminal law, punishment, and desert
- Part Two. The culpable choice. The essence of culpability : acts manifesting insufficient concern for the legally protected interests of others ; Negligence ; Defeaters of culpability
- Part Three. The culpable act. Only culpability, not resulting harm, affects desert ; When are inchoate crimes culpable and why? ; The locus of culpability
- Part Four. A proposed code. What a culpability-based criminal code might look like.