rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Fair opportunity and responsibility
  name:
    name part: Brink, David O. (David Owen)
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: "Fair Opportunity and Responsibility lies at the intersection of moral psychology and criminal jurisprudence and analyzes responsibility and its relations to desert, culpability, excuse, blame, and punishment. It links responsibility with the reactive attitudes but makes the justification of the reactive attitudes depend on a response-independent conception of responsibility. Responsibility and excuse are inversely related; an agent is responsible for misconduct if and only if it is not excused. Consequently, we can study responsibility by understanding excuses. We excuse misconduct when an agent's capacities or opportunities are significantly impaired, because these capacities and opportunities are essential if agents are to have a fair opportunity to avoid wrongdoing. This conception of excuse tells us that responsibility itself consists in agents having suitable cognitive and volitional capacities--normative competence--and a fair opportunity to exercise these capacities free from undue interference--situational control. Because our reactive attitudes and practices presuppose the fair opportunity conception of responsibility, this supports a predominantly retributive conception of blame and punishment that treats culpable wrongdoing as the desert basis of blame and punishment. We can then apply the fair opportunity framework to assessing responsibility and excuse in circumstances of structural injustice, situational influences in ordinary circumstances and in wartime, insanity and psychopathy, immaturity, addiction, and crimes of passion. Though fair opportunity has important implications for each issue, treating them together allows us to explore common themes and appreciate the need to take partial responsibility and excuse seriously in our practices of blame and punishment"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Prolegomena -- The Reactive Attitudes and Responsibility -- The Fair Opportunity Conception of Responsibility -- Fair Opportunity, Capacities, and Possibilities -- Fair Opportunity and History -- Blame, Punishment, and Predominant Retributivism -- The Nature and Significance of Culpability -- Affirmative Defenses: Principles and Puzzles -- Structural Injustice and Fair Opportunity -- Situationism and Fair Opportunity -- Incompetence, Psychopathy, and Fair Opportunity -- Immaturity and Fair Opportunity -- Addiction and Fair Opportunity -- Battered Persons, Provocation, and Fair Opportunity -- Partial Responsibility and Excuse
  note: David O. Brink.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Responsibility
  subject:
    topic: Right and wrong
  subject:
    topic: Excuses
  subject:
    topic: Responsabilité
  subject:
    topic: Rectitude
  subject:
    topic: Excuses
  subject:
    topic: Sentencing
  subject:
    topic: Criminal Law
  subject:
    topic: LAW
  subject:
    topic: Jurisprudence
  subject:
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Excuses
  subject:
    topic: Responsibility
  subject:
    topic: Right and wrong
  classification: BJ1451 .B75 2021
  classification: 170
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Fair opportunity and responsibility
    name:
      name part: Brink, David O. (David Owen), 1958-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1223013862
  identifier: 9780191891809
  identifier: 0191891800
  identifier: 9780192603180
  identifier: 0192603183
  identifier: 9780198859468
  identifier: 0198859465
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200925
    record change date: 20260319182722.2
    record identifier: in00005718979
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng