Judging Evil : : Rethinking the Law of Murder and Manslaughter / / Samuel H. Pillsbury.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Pillsbury, Samuel H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface: The Challenge of Criminal Responsibility --; Acknowledgments --; Part 1 Deserved Punishment --; 1 A Question of Value --; 2 The Value of Choice --; 3 Punishment as Defense of Value --; 4 Just Punishment in an Unjust Society --; 5 Moralizing the Passions of Punishment --; Part II Defining Murder and Manslaughter --; 6 From Principles to Rules: An Introduction to Mens Rea --; 7 The Worst Crime of All --; 8 Crimes of Passion --; 9 Crimes of Indifference --; Appendix: Proposed Jury Instructions --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814768167; 9783110716924
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814768167.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Samuel H. Pillsbury.

Why do killers deserve punishment? How should the law decide? These are the questions Samuel H. Pillsbury seeks to answer in this important new book on the theory and practice of criminal responsibility. In an argument both traditional and fresh, Pillsbury holds that persons deserve punishment according to the evil they choose to do, regardless of their psychological capacities. Using real case examples, he offers concrete proposals for legal reform, urging that modern preoccupations with subjective aspects of wrongdoing be replaced with rules that focus more on the individual's motives.