The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law

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.