The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law

• First work of its kind (i.e., a handbook of authoritative, original essays) in the philosophy of criminal law
• The book covers a wide variety of topics including criminalization of obscenity and hate speech, the insanity defense, pleas of self-defense by battered women, the death penalty, and clemency.

Readership: Philosophers who specialize in legal philosophy, moral philosophy, or political philosophy; Criminal Law theorists and scholars; Criminologists; and Philosophy graduate students with interests in moral, political or legal philosophy.

Edited by John Deigh, Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, and David Dolinko, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

John Deigh is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of three books, The Sources of Moral Agency, Emotions, Values, and the Law, and An Introduction to Ethics (2010). He was the editor of Ethics from 1997 to 2008. David Dolinko is Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests focus on the philosophical underpinnings of criminal law. He has published articles on retributivism, capital punishment, and the privilege against self-incrimination.

Preface
1: The Limits of the Criminal Law
2: Criminalizing Expression: Hate Speech and Obscenity
3: Blackmail
4: An Alleged Act Requirement in the Criminal Law
5: Attempts
6: The Philosophical Foundations of Complicity Law
7: Causation in the Criminal Law
8: Responsibility
9: Culpability
10: Justification and Excuse
11: Duress
12: Insanity Defense
13: Gender Issues in the Criminal Law
14: Punishment
15: The Death Penalty and Deontology
16: Mercy
17: Alternatives to Punishment
Index