Alan Brudner

Punishment and Freedom

A Liberal Theory of Penal Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

The book provides a novel theory of the criminal law that focuses, not on when it is appropriate to blame and make suffer an individual character, but on when it is legitimate to deprive a free agent of its liberty and on how it is possible to reconcile punishment with individual freedom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780199652334
• ISBN-10: 0199652333
• Artikelnr.: 34738861

Autorenporträt

Alan Brudner is Albert Abel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He holds a law degree from the University of Toronto, where he also received bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Political Science. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Constitutional Goods and The Unity of the Common Law: Studies in Hegelian Jurisprudence as well as numerous journal articles on a variety of topics in legal and political theory. He was the editor of the University of Toronto Law Journal from 2000 to 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Punishment
2: Culpable Mind
3: Culpable Action
4: Responsibility for Harm
5: Liability for Public Welfare Offences
6: Justification
7: Excuse
8: Detention After Acquittal
9: The Unity of the Penal Law
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index