Act and Crime

Professor Michael Moore holds the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair at the Univerity of Illinois. He is jointly appointed as Professor of Law in the College of Law and as Professor of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He also holds an appointment as a Professor with the Center for Advanced Studies. His major works include Causation and Responsibility (OUP, 2009), Placing Blame (OUP, 1997), and Law and Psychiatry (CUP, 1984).

• Preface to the Paperback Edition ; 1. Introduction: Criminal Law's Three Conduct Requirements ; PART I: BASIC ACTS AND THE ACT REQUIREMENT ; 2. The Doctrinal Unity of the Act Requirement ; 3. The Orthodox View of the Act Requirement and Its Normative Defence ; 4. The Metaphysics of Basic Acts I: The Existence of Actions ; 5. The Metaphysics of Basic Acts II: The Identity of Actions with Bodily Movements ; 6. The Metaphysics of Basic Acts III: Volitions as the Essential Source of Actions ; PART II: COMPLEX ACTION DESCRIPTIONS AND THE ACTUS REUS REQUIREMENT ; 7. The Doctrinal Basis of the Actus Reus Requirement ; 8. Unity in Complex Action Description and in the Actus Reus Requirement ; 9. The Normative Basis for the Actus Reus Requirement ; 10. The Metaphysics of Complex Actions I: The Dependence of Complex Actions on Basic Acts ; 11. The Metaphysics of Complex Actions II: The Identity of Complex Actions with Basic Acts ; PART III: THE IDENTITY CONDITIONS OF ACTIONS AND THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY REQUIREMENT ; 12. The Doctrinal and Normative Basis of the Double Jeopardy Requirement ; 13. Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Notions of the 'Sameness' of Action-Types ; 14. Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Notions of the 'Sameness' of Act-Tokens

Michael Moore has produced the finest and most comprehensive treatment of the connection between the substantive criminal law and that highly specialized branch of philosophy that deals with human action. Anyone with a serious interest in the relationship between these two areas has long awaited the careful attention provided by Moore's excellent book. Act and Crime sets the standard against which subsequent contributions will be measured; quite simply, there exists no book-length examination of these issues to rival Moore's.