Judging Evil : : Rethinking the Law of Murder and Manslaughter / / 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 accor...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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