Responsibility and Criminal Liability
autonomy principally in tenns of the agent's conscious choice of ends or conduct. From this, the cognitivist emphasis on mental states and their contents naturally follows. The presence of specified mental states, as signifying agent choice, thus becomes the hallmark of responsible conduct. Cap...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | Law and Philosophy Library
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Responsibility and Criminal Law
- I. Law as Purposeful Activity
- II. Criminal Law and the Liberal Society
- III. The Two-Fold Aim
- IV. Responsibility
- V. Two Models of Responsibility
- 3. Law and Society
- I. Liability, Grading, and Allotment
- II. Excuse, Justification, and Mitigation
- III. Law and Society
- 4. The Requirement of Conduct
- I. The Act Doctrine
- II. Definitions and Terminology
- III. Omissions
- IV. Limitations of the Doctrine
- 5. Voluntariness
- I. Voluntariness and the Act Doctrine
- II. Involuntary and Nonvoluntary Conduct
- III. Objectivity and Subjectivity
- IV. Voluntariness and the Rationale of Excuses
- 6. Intentionality
- I. Intentionality
- II. Intentionality as Desire and Foresight
- III. Intentionality, Probabilities, and Purposes
- IV. Import and Implications
- 7. Knowledge and Foresight
- I. Introduction
- II. Knowledge and Foresight
- III. Taking Risks
- IV. Negligence
- V. Exculpatory Mistakes
- 8. Responsibility and Conditional Liability
- I. Introduction
- II. Choice and Control
- III. Opportunities and Responsibility
- IV. Primary (Potency) Responsibility
- V. Prior Fault
- VI. Conclusion
- Reference Bibliography
- Table of Cases Cited or Consulted