Act and crime
Subtitle: the philosophy of action and its implications for criminal law
By: Michael S. Moore.
Series: Clarendon law series
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: Criminal act.; Criminal liability.; Criminal law -- Philosophy.
Description: "Act and Crime for the first time provides a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by both Anglo-American criminal law and the morality that underlies it. The book defends the view that human actions are always volitionally caused bodily movements and nothing else. The theory is used to illuminate three major problems in the drafting and the interpretation of criminal codes: (1) what the voluntary act requirement both does and should require; (2) what complex descriptions of actions prohibited by criminal codes both do and should require (in addition to the doing of a voluntary act); and (3) when two actions are 'the same' for purposes of assessing whether multiple prosecutions and multiple punishments are warranted. The book both contributes to the development of a coherent theory of action in philosophy, and it provides both legislators and judges (and the lawyers who argue to both) a grounding in three of the most basic elements of criminal liability."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-403) and index.