Douglas Husak is Professor of Philosophy and Law at Rutgers University. He is a leading figure in the philosophy of criminal law and has written numerous journal articles and books, including Overcriminalisation, Legalize This! The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs, and The Legalization of Drugs.

• INTRODUCTION: REFLECTIONS ON CRIMINAL THEORY ; I CRIMINAL LIABILITY ; 1. Does Criminal Liability Require an Act? ; 2. Motive and Criminal Liability ; 3. The Costs to Criminal Theory of Supposing that Intentions are Irrelevant to Permissibility ; 4. Transferred Intent ; 5. The Nature and Justifiability of Nonconsummate Offenses ; 6. Strict Liability, Justice, and Proportionality ; II DEGREES OF CULPABILITY ; 7. The Sequential Principle of Relative Culpability ; 8. Wilful Ignorance, Knowledge, and the 'Equal Culpability' Thesis: A Study of the Deeper Significance of the Principle of Legality ; 9. Rapes Without Rapists: Consent and Reasonable Mistake ; 10. Mistake of Law and Culpability ; III DEFENCES ; 11. On the Supposed Priority of Justification to Excuse ; 12. Partial Defenses ; 13. The 'But Everybody Does That!' Defense ; 14. The De Minimis 'Defense' to Criminal Liability ; IV PUNISHMENT AND ITS JUSTIFICATION ; 15. Why Punish the Deserving? ; 16. Malum Prohibitum and Retributivism ; 17. 'Already Punished Enough'

I recommend a wide readership of this invaluable book among those interested in the foundational issues of criminal law.