Action and Value in Criminal Law

• Introduction: The Logic of Criminal Law ; 1. Agency and Welfare in the Penal Law ; 2. Acting, Trying, and Criminal Liability ; 3. On What's Intentionally Done ; 4. Taking the Consequences ; 5. Foreseeing Harm Opaquely ; 6. Culpability and Mistake of Law ; 7. The Nature of Justification ; 8. Should the Criminal Law Abandon the Actus Reus/Mens Rea Distinction? ; 9. Subjectivism and Objectivism: Towards Synthesis ; 10. Diminished Capacity ; 11. Value, Action, Mental Illness, and the Law

`a handsome volume, with an unusually critical prologue (to which readers in search of a longer review might turn) ... This is a collection to use'Cambridge Law Journal