The Criminal Law's Person

Administrative / Constitutional Law

The Criminal Law's Person

Edited by Claes Lernestedt · Matt Matravers
Hart Publishing April 2024

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9781509956449
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Hart Publishing
Publication
April 2024
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Encounters between criminal-law scholars and those working in 'explanatory' and 'behavioural' sciences have often been characterized by mutual distrust and defensiveness. This distrust is especially intense in connection with the theory and practice of criminal responsibility. To break this deadlock, a new framing of the issues is needed. This is not simply a matter of asking, for example, what follows for criminal responsibility (and responsibility more generally) from the latest scientific findings in neuroscience. Research and conferences on neuroscience and the law abound. Rather, what is needed is to re-examine the fundamental idea of the criminal law's person so as to construct a more nuanced understanding of criminal law's blameworthy individual. That is the goal of this volume. Achieving this goal is necessarily an interdisciplinary task and the volume brings together an international group of academics from across the fields of law, philosophy, and ethics to engage with these topics.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Criminal Law's Person
Claes Lernestedt, Stockholm University, Sweden and Matt Matravers, University of York, UK
I. Criminal Justice: Political Not Metaphysical
II. The Criminal Law and the Criminal Law's Person(s)
III. Contested Sources, Contested Purposes
IV. Outline of the Volume
2. The Criminal Law's Various Persons
Matt Matravers, University of York, UK
I. Introduction
II. Ex Ante: Criminalisation, Policing and Prosecution
III. Ex Post: Conviction and Sentencing
IV. 'Science' and the Criminal Law's Various Persons
3. The Criminal Law's Person and Normative Elements in the Legal Definition of Excusing Circumstances
Kai Hamdorf, Federal Court of Justice, Germany
I. Introduction
II. The Presumption of Guilt in the Normative Concept of the Criminal Law's Person
III. The Presumption of Guilt and Excusing Circumstances in Criminal Law
IV. Conclusions
4. Standard-Setting versus Tracking 'Profound' Blameworthiness: What should be the Role of the Rules for Ascription of Responsibility?
Claes Lernestedt, Stockholm University, Sweden
I. Introduction
II. Criminal Law Backwards and Forwards
III. What if? A Flexible within
IV. A Few Examples
V. Closing Comments: The Criminal Law and Everyday People
5. Attributability and Accountability in the Criminal Law
Robin Zheng, University of Glasgow, UK
I. Two Concepts of Responsibility
II. Two Routes to Criminal Responsibility: The Attributability Route
III. Two Routes to Criminal Responsibility: The Accountability Route
IV. Two Persons of Criminal Responsibility
V. Attributability versus Accountability
6. In Search of Criminal Law's Person
Malcolm Thorburn, University of Toronto, Canada
I. Introduction
II. Legal Personality
III. Responsible Agency in Criminal Law
IV. Conclusion
7. Victims Who Victimise: Guilt in Political Theory and Moral Psychology
Alan Norrie, Warwick University, UK
I. The Problem of Perpetrators as Victims Who Victimise
II. Normative Political Theory: The Problem of the Ideal and the Actual
III. The Moral Psychology of Guilt: Towards a Moral Grammar
IV. The Guilt of Perpetrators as Victims Who Victimise
8. Responsibility Beyond Blame: Unfree Agency and the Moral Psychology of Criminal Law's Persons
Craig Reeves, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
I. Introduction
II. Blame and Blameworthiness
III. The Tyranny of the Past
IV. Unfree Agency
V. The Moral Psychology of Heteronomy
VI. The Antinomy of Responsibility
VII. Responsibility, Reification and Respect
VIII. The Grammar of Taking Responsibility
9. Implicit Bias, Self-Defence and the Reasonable Person
Jules Holroyd, University of Sheffield, UK and Federico Picinali, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
I. Introduction
II. Unreasonable Persons and Biased Beliefs
III. Racism and Self-Defence
IV. US Law and the 'Reasonable-Belief Rule'
V. Evaluating the Reasonable Person Standards
VI. English and Welsh Law and the Genuine Belief Rule
VII. A Palliative Solution
VIII. Concluding Remarks
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