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Tables of Contents for Foundations of Criminal Law
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
4
1 The Crime Problem: Theory and Evidence
7
36
1.1 Why Is Crime Attractive? Seductions and Repulsions of Crime
10
3
Jack Katz
1.2 Facts Facts a Theory of Crime Ought to Fit
13
4
John Braithwaite
1.3 Explanations and Proposals
17
26
Causes of Violence
17
3
John Monahan
Malign Neglect
20
10
Michael Tonry
What to Do about Crime
30
8
James Q. Wilson
Notes and Questions
38
5
2 Crime and Punishment
43
102
2.1 The Nature of Punishment and the Boundaries of the Criminal Law
45
15
Punishment
45
3
Kent Greenawalt
Notes and Questions
48
1
An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law
49
3
Richard Posner
Notes and Questions
52
2
The Nature of a Theory of the Criminal Law
54
4
Michael S. Moore
Notes and Questions
58
2
2.2 The Moral Justifications for Punishment
60
52
2.2.1 Introduction A Taxonomy of Purposes of Punishment
60
5
Michael S. Moore
2.2.2 Utilitarianism
65
10
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
65
1
Jeremy Bentham
Notes and Questions
66
2
The Argument for Retributivism
68
4
Michael S. Moore
Notes and Questions
72
3
2.2.3 Retributivism
75
16
The Metaphysical Elements of Justice
75
2
Immanuel Kant
Notes and Questions
77
1
Persons and Punishment
78
2
Herbert Morris
The Moral Worth of Retribution
80
4
Michael S. Moore
Notes and Questions
84
7
2.2.4 Humanitarian or Scientific Alternatives to Punishment: The Rehabilitative Ideal
91
14
The Crime of Punishment
91
3
Karl Menninger
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
94
3
B. F. Skinner
The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
97
4
C. S. Lewis
Notes and Questions
101
4
2.2.5 Attempts to Integrate the Divergent Theories of Punishment
105
7
Punishment and Responsibility
105
5
H. L. A. Hart
Notes and Questions
110
2
2.3 What to Punish
112
33
2.3.1 Getting at the Question and Its Possible Answers
112
6
Harm to Others
112
5
Joel Feinberg
Notes and Questions
117
1
2.3.2 The "Soft Harm" of Psychic or Moral Offense as a Justification of Criminal Legislation
118
5
Offense to Others
118
4
Joel Feinberg
Notes and Questions
122
1
2.3.3 The Paternalistic Concern about Harm to the Actors Whose Behavior Is Prohibited
123
7
Paternalism
123
5
Gerald Dworkin
Notes and Questions
128
2
2.3.4 Using the Criminal Law to Punish or Prevent Moral Wrongdoing
130
15
Harmless Wrongdoing
130
8
Joel Feinberg
Notes and Questions
138
2
A Theory of Criminal Law Theories
140
2
Michael S. Moore
Notes and Questions
142
3
3 Principal Liability
145
78
3.1 Introduction
147
12
The Criminal Law and the Luck of the Draw
147
3
Sanford H. Kadish
Notes and Questions
150
2
The Independent Moral Significance of Wrongdoing
152
5
Michael S. Moore
Notes and Questions
157
2
3.2 Acts and Omissions
159
20
Crimes of Omission
159
4
Leo Katz
Interfering
163
3
Shelly Kagan
Notes and Questions
166
2
Act and Crime
168
5
Michael S. Moore
Notes and Questions
173
6
3.3 Causation
179
15
Causation in the Law
179
12
H. L. A. Hart
A. M. Honore
Notes and Questions
191
3
3.4 Legality
194
10
The Principle of Legality
194
1
Michael S. Moore
Notes and Questions
195
1
Legality, Vagueness, and the Construction of Penal Statutes
196
4
John Jeffries
Notes and Questions
200
4
3.5 Mental States
204
19
The Explanation of Human Action
204
9
Alexander Rosenberg
H. L. A. Hart and the Doctrines of Mens Rea and Criminal Responsibility
213
7
Richard A. Wasserstrom
Notes and Questions
220
3
4 The General Part: Accomplice, Attempt, and Conspiracy Liability
223
26
4.1 Accomplice Liability
223
20
Aid and Comfort
223
2
Leo Katz
Complicity, Cause, and Blame: A Study in the Interpretation of Doctrine
225
10
Sanford H. Kadish
Notes and Questions
235
2
The Theory of Derivative Liability
237
4
George Fletcher
Notes and Questions
241
2
4.2 Attempt Liability
243
6
Constructing a Theory of Impossible Attempts
243
5
George Fletcher
Notes and Questions
248
1
5 Justification and Excuse
249
82
5.1 Distinguishing Justification and Excuse
251
9
The Perplexing Borders of Justification and Excuse
251
8
Kent Greenawalt
Notes and Questions
259
1
5.2 Justification: Defensive Force
260
17
Putative Self-Defense and Rules of Imputation in Defense of the Battered Woman
260
11
B. Sharon Byrd
Notes and Questions
271
1
The Enterprise of Prevention and the Principle of Proportional Response
272
4
Larry Alexander
Notes and Questions
276
1
5.3 Excuse Generally
277
25
Brain and Blame
277
8
Stephen J. Morse
Convicting the Morally Blameless: Reassessing the Relationship between Legal and Moral Accountability
285
5
Peter Arenella
Choice, Character, and Excuse
290
10
Michael S. Moore
Notes and Questions
300
2
5.4 Excuse: Duress
302
5
Duress as Justification
302
4
Joshua Dressler
Notes and Questions
306
1
5.5 Excuse: Mental Abnormality
307
24
The Abolition of the Special Defense of Insanity
307
6
Norval Morris
Excusing the Crazy: The Insanity Defense Reconsidered
313
5
Stephen J. Morse
The Idiom of "Involuntariness" and the Law
318
6
Herbert Fingarette
Ann Fingarette Hasse
Conclusions about Addictions and Criminal Responsibility
324
2
Herbert Fingarette
Ann Fingarette Hasse
Notes and Questions
326
5
6 Sentencing Theory and Practice
331
Sentencing Aims, Principles, and Policies
333
15
Andrew Ashworth
Notes and Questions
348