The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law
Edited by John Deigh, David Dolinko
Abstract
This is a comprehensive handbook in the philosophy of criminal law. It contains seventeen essays by 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. The handbook is a resource for scholars and students whose research and studies concern philosophical issues in criminal law and criminal law theory.
Keywords:
criminal law,
limits to criminalization,
obscenity,
hate speech,
blackmail,
law of rape,
accomplice liability,
causation,
responsibility,
death penalty
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Aug 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195314854
- Published to Oxford Handbooks Online:
- Sep 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195314854.001.0001
Editors
John Deigh,
editor
John Deigh is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes on topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy. He is the author of The Sources of Moral Agency (1996), Emotions, Values, and the Law (2008), and An Introduction to Ethics (2010).
David Dolinko,
editor
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.
