Crime and Culpability : A Theory of Criminal Law (Hardcover)

Part I. Introduction: Retribution and the Criminal Law: 1. Criminal law, punishment, and desert; Part II. The Culpable Act: 2. The essence of culpability: acts manifesting insufficient concern for the legally protected interests of others; 3. Negligence; 4. Defeaters of culpability; Part III. The Immateriality of Resulting Harm to Legally Protected Interests: 5. Only culpability, not resulting harm, affects desert; 6. When are inchoate crimes culpable and why?; 7. The locus of culpability; Part IV. A Proposed Code: 8. What a culpability-based criminal code might look like.