Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility

Rowan Cruft is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. His recent work has appeared in Law & Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, Utilitas, and related journals.Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge; Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge; and Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy. Among his many books, the most recently published is The Death Penalty Redux: A Philosophical Investigation (OUP, 2011).Mark R. Reiff is a Senior Lecturer in Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester School of Law. He is the author of Punishment, Compensation, and Law: A Theory of Enforceability (CUP, 2005), as well as various papers on topics within legal, political, and moral philosophy, and before becoming an academic, spent many years as a practicing lawyer. During the 2008-09 academic year, Dr Reiff was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. His second book, Exploitation and Economic Justice in the Liberal Capitalist State, the product of that fellowship, is forthcoming.

• 1. Antony Duff and the Philosophy of Punishment ; PUNISHMENT AS COMMUNICATION ; 2. Repentance, Mercy, and Communicative Punishment ; 3. Where is the Love? The Topography of Mercy ; 4. The Offender's Part in the Dialogue ; 5. Duff on Hart Treatment ; RESPONSIBILITY ; 6. Relations of Responsibility ; 7. The Triadic Relational Structure of Responsibility: A Defence ; 8. Literature, Genocide, and the Philosophy of International Law ; 9. Beyond the Justification/Excuse Dichotomy ; CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ; 10. The Criminal Law's Ambivalence about Outcomes ; 11. Obligations and Outcomes ; 12. Is Intent Constitutive of Wrongdoing? ; 13. Duff on Attempts ; CRIMINALIZATION ; 14. Criminalizing Failure to Rescue: A Matter of 'Solidarity' or Altruism? ; 15. Public Wrongs and the 'Criminal Law's Business': When Victims Won't Share ; 16. Disgust, Respect, and the Criminalization of Offense ; 17. Community, Culture, and Criminalization ; 18. Punishing the Awkward, the Stupid, the Weak, and the Selfish: The Culpability of Negligence ; REPLY ; 19. In Response

This well-presented collection of seventeen essays on his work both develops existing arguments and explores fresh avenues for future discussion. It should interest all those with an interest in the theory and doctrine of the criminal law, and in criminal justice more generally.