Criminal Justice : : Nomos XXVII / / ed. by Ronald Pennock, John W. Chapman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bedau, Hugo Adam,; Blanar, Andrew C.,; Brandt, R.B.,; Coleman, Jules L.,; Davis, Michael,; Klevorick, Alvin K.,; Moore, Michael S.,; Murphy, Jeffrie G.,; Pennock, J. Roland,; Posner, Richard A.,; Rosen, Lawrence,; Schulhofer, Stephen J.,; Shapiro, Martin,; Stone, Christopher D.,; Thompson, Dennis F.,; Wolf, Susan,
• HerausgeberIn: Chapman, John W.,; Pennock, Ronald,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1985]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 1985
• Language: English
• Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This, the twenty-seventh volume in the annual series of publications by the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, features a number of distinguised contributors addressing the topic of criminal justice. Part I considers "The Moral and Metaphysical Sources of the Criminal Law," with contributions by Michael S. Moore, Lawrence Rosen, and Martin Shapiro. The four chapters in Part II all relate, more or less directly, to the issue of retribution, with papers by Hugo Adam Bedau, Michael Davis, Jeffrie G. Murphy, and R. B. Brandt. In the following part, Dennis F. Thompson, Christopher D. Stone, and Susan Wolf deal with the special problem of criminal responsibility in government-one of great importance in modern society. The fourth and final part, echoing the topic of NOMOS XXIV, Ethics, Economics, and the Law, addresses the economic theory of crime. The section includes contributions by Alvin K. Klevorick, Richard A. Posner, Jules L. Coleman, and Stephen J. Schulhofer. A valuable bibiography on criminal justice by Andrew C. Blanar concludes this volume of NOMOS.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. THE MORAL AND METAPHYSICAL SOURCES OF THE CRIMINAL LAW -- 1. THE MORAL AND METAPHYSICAL SOURCES OF THE CRIMINAL LAW -- 2. INTENTIONALITY AND THE CONCEPT OF THE PERSON -- 3. THE DECONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF INTENT -- PART II. CONCERNING RETRIBUTIVE THEORY -- 4. CLASSIFICATION-BASED SENTENCING: SOME CONCEPTUAL AND ETHICAL PROBLEMS -- 5. HOW TO MAKE THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME -- 6. RETRIBUTIVISM AND THE STATE'S INTEREST IN PUNISHMENT -- 7. A MOTIVATIONAL THEORY OF EXCUSES IN THE CRIMINAL LAW -- PART III. CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT -- 8. CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT -- 9. A COMMENT ON "CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT" -- 10. THE LEGAL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF ORGANIZATIONS -- PART IV. THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIMINAL LAW -- 11. ON THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIME -- 12. COMMENT ON "ON THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIME" -- 13. CRIME, KICKERS, AND TRANSACTION STRUCTURES -- 14. IS THERE AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIME? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX