Introduction : the criminal law's person / Claes Lernestedt and Matt Matravers -- The criminal law's various persons / Matt Matravers -- The criminal law's person and normative elements in the legal definition of excusing circumstances / Kai Hamdorf -- Standard-setting versus tracking 'profound' blameworthiness : what should be the role of the rules for ascription of responsibility? / Claes Lernestedt -- Attributability and accountability in the criminal law / Robin Zheng -- In Search of criminal law's person / Malcolm Thorburn -- The moral grammar of guilt : perspectives in political theory and moral psychology / Alan Norrie -- Responsibility beyond blame : unfree agency and the moral psychology of criminal law's persons / Craig Reeves -- Implicit bias, self-defence and the reasonable person / Jules Holroyd and Federico Picinali.
Summary:
"The state's use of the threat, and imposition, of punishments to regulate conduct is thought (or at least said) by many to be legitimised by the idea that the criminal law's burdens only fall on those who are blameworthy for their conduct. However, the formal concept of 'blameworthiness' needs to be made substantive. This puts various ideas regarding the criminal law's person at the heart of debates about blame, guilt, and responsibility. How is the criminal law's person constructed, by whom, and with what disciplinary norms? How is it threatened by new 'knowledge', and how do those threats play out amongst the various stakeholders who claim the criminal law's person as 'theirs'? To address these and cognate questions, this volume brings together an international group of academics to engage with the criminal law's person from a range of disciplinary perspectives"-- Provided by publisher.
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