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Main Author: Alexander, Larry 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009
Series:Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804595
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804595
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804595
Summary: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 that desert is a function of the actor's culpability, and that culpability is a function of the risks of harm to protected interests that the actor believes he is imposing and his reasons for acting in the face of those risks. The authors deny that resultant harms, as well as unperceived risks, affect the actor's desert. They thus reject punishment for inadvertent negligence as well as for intentions or preparatory acts that are not risky. Alexander and Ferzan discuss the reasons for imposing risks that negate or mitigate culpability, the individuation of crimes, and omissions
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages)
ISBN:9780511804595
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511804595

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