Larry Alexander is the Warren Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. He is the author or co-author of five monographs, including Demystifying Legal Reasoning (Cambridge, 2008) with Emily Sherwin and Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (Cambridge, 2009) with Kimberly Ferzan. He is also the editor of four anthologies, and the author or co-author of multiple articles, essays, and book chapters on topics of legal theory, constitutional law, and moral philosophy.
Acknowledgements
1. Crime and culpability: recounting the basic picture
Part I. Problems and Puzzles of Risking: 2. Risking other people's riskings
3. Risks and 'other law' beliefs
4. Omissions and culpable riskings: problems, problems
5. Is there a case for proxy crimes? Part II. Problems and Puzzles of Culpability: 6. Moral ignorance
7. The violator of deontological constraints
8. Mass murders, recidivists, and volume discounts
Part III. Problems and Puzzles of Punishment: 9. The problem of psychological disconnection between the culpable actor and the person to be punished
10. Distributing retributive desert
Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Conclusion
Index.