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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law

Author: John Deigh; David Dolinko
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
ISBN: 9780195314854
Published In: September 2011
Format: Hardback , 560 pages
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First work of its kind (i.e., a handbook of authoritative, original essays) in the philosophy of criminal law
The book covers a wide variety of topics including criminalization of obscenity and hate speech, the insanity defense, pleas of self-defense by battered women, the death penalty, and clemency.

This is the first comprehensive handbook in the philosophy of criminal law. It contains seventeen original essays by leading thinkers in the field and covers the field's major topics including limits to criminalization, obscenity and hate speech, blackmail, the law of rape, attempts, accomplice liability, causation, responsibility, justification and excuse, duress, provocation and self-defense, insanity, punishment, the death penalty, mercy, and preventive detention and other alternatives to punishment. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students whose research and studies concern philosophical issues in criminal law and criminal law theory.

Readership: Philosophers who specialize in legal philosophy, moral philosophy, or political philosophy; Criminal Law theorists and scholars; Criminologists; and Philosophy graduate students with interests in moral, political or legal philosophy.

Preface
1: The Limits of the Criminal Law
2: Criminalizing Expression: Hate Speech and Obscenity
3: Blackmail
4: An Alleged Act Requirement in the Criminal Law
5: Attempts
6: The Philosophical Foundations of Complicity Law
7: Causation in the Criminal Law
8: Responsibility
9: Culpability
10: Justification and Excuse
11: Duress
12: Insanity Defense
13: Gender Issues in the Criminal Law
14: Punishment
15: The Death Penalty and Deontology
16: Mercy
17: Alternatives to Punishment
Index

Edited by John Deigh, Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, and David Dolinko, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

John Deigh is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of three books, The Sources of Moral Agency, Emotions, Values, and the Law, and An Introduction to Ethics (2010). He was the editor of Ethics from 1997 to 2008. David Dolinko is Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests focus on the philosophical underpinnings of criminal law. He has published articles on retributivism, capital punishment, and the privilege against self-incrimination.

Contributors:
Gerald Dworkin; L. W. Sumner; Mitchell Berman; Douglas Husak; Andrew Ashworth; Christopher Kutz; Michael Moore; John Deigh; Larry Alexander; Kimberly Kessler Ferzan; Joshua Dressler; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Ken Levy; Marcia Baron; David Dolinko; Carol Steiker; R. A. Duff; Stephen P. Garvey