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Review Essay: Excuse Theory Through A Liberal Lens, Richard Boldt
Review Essay: Excuse Theory Through A Liberal Lens, Richard Boldt
Richard C. Boldt
This essay reviews Excusing Crime, by Jeremy Horder, Reader in Criminal Law and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford. It describes Horder’s project, which is to build a complex taxonomy of criminal law excuse practices and to use that account of “why things are as they are” to argue, on the basis of his version of liberal theory, against “the restricted range” of excuses in the UK and elsewhere. By virtue of his appreciation that some, but not all, excuses contain justificatory elements, and given his insistence that pure claims of non-responsibility are not excuses, Horder has defined a …
The Relationship Between Theory And Practice In The Study Of Punishment, Richard Boldt
The Relationship Between Theory And Practice In The Study Of Punishment, Richard Boldt
Richard C. Boldt
Review of "A Reader on Punishment" edited by R.A. Duff and David Garland. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Breaking New Ground In International Criminal Law And Philosophy, Michelle Dempsey
Breaking New Ground In International Criminal Law And Philosophy, Michelle Dempsey
Michelle Madden Dempsey
This is a book review of Larry May and Zachary Hoskins, eds., International Criminal Law and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2010).