5. When Does Evidence Support Guilt “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt”?
6. Blackmail: A Crime of Paradox and Irony
7. Understanding Bribery
8. Civil Disobedience, Punishment, and Injustice
9. Complicity
10. Skepticism about Corporate Punishment Revisited
11. Capital Punishment and the Owl of Minerva
12. Fraud
13. Hate (or Bias) Crime Laws
14. Ignorance of Law: How to Conceptualize and Maybe Resolve the Issue
15. Incest
16. Inchoate Criminality
17. Insanity
18. Mitigating Factors: A Typology
19. Moral Uncertainty and the Criminal Law
20. Neuroscience and the Criminal Law: Perils and Promises
21. No Offense
22. Political Philosophy and Punishment
23. Proportionality in Punishment
24. The Subjectivist Critique of Proportionality
25. Prostitution
26. Race, Criminal Law and Ethical Life
27. Reckless Beliefs
28. The Crime of “Revenge Porn”
29. Role Morality
30. Sex Offenses and the Problem of Prevention
31. Stand Your Ground
32. Targeted Killing and the Criminal Law
33. War Crimes and Just War Theory
Larry Alexander is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, and author of several books and over 240 articles on legal theory.
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan is the Harrison Robertson Professor of Law and Joel B. Piassick Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. She is co-editor in chief of Law and Philosophy.
This handbook consists of essays on contemporary issues in criminal law and their theoretical underpinnings. Some of the essays deal with the relationship between morality and criminalization. Others deal with criminalization in the context of specific crimes such as fraud, blackmail, and revenge pornography. The contributors also address questions of responsible agency such as the effects of addiction or insanity, and some deal with punishment, its mode and severity, and the justness of the state’s imposition of it. These chapters are authored by some of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of applied ethics, criminal law, and jurisprudence.