The philosophy of criminal law
Subtitle: selected essays
By: by Douglas Husak.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199585038
Subjects: Criminal law -- Philosophy
Table of contents: title: Does criminal liability require an act?; title: Motive and criminal liability; title: The costs to criminal theory of supposing that intentions are irrelevant to permissibility; title: Transferred intent; title: The nature and justifiability of nonconsummate offenses; title: Strict liability, justice, and proportionality; title: The sequential principle of relative culpability; title: Willful ignorance, knowledge, and the equal culpability thesis : a study of the significance of the principle of legality; title: Rapes without rapists : consent and reasonable mistake; title: Mistake of law and culpability; title: On the supposed priority of justification to excuse; title: Partial defenses; title: The "but everybody does that!" defense; title: The de minimis "defense" to criminal liability; title: Why punish the deserving; title: Malum prohibitum and retributivism; title: Already punished enough.