The philosophy of criminal law : selected essays /
This volume collects 17 of Douglas Husak's influential essays in criminal law theory. The essays span Husak's original and provocative contributions to the central topics in the field, including the grounds of criminal liability, relative culpability, the role of defences, and the justific...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Does criminal liability require an act?
- Motive and criminal liability
- The costs to criminal theory of supposing that intentions are irrelevant to permissibility
- Transferred intent
- The nature and justifiability of nonconsummate offenses
- Strict liability, justice, and proportionality
- The sequential principle of relative culpability
- Willful ignorance, knowledge, and the 'equal culpability' thesis : a study of the deeper significance of the principle of legality
- Rapes without rapists : consent and reasonable mistake
- Mistake of law and culpability
- On the supposed priority of justification to excuse
- Partial defenses
- The 'but everybody does that!' defense
- The de minimis 'defense' to criminal liability
- Why punish the deserving?
- Malum prohibitum and retributivism
- 'Already punished enough'.