In print for the first time in over ten years, Act and Crime
provides a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by
both Anglo-American criminal law and the morality that underlies
it. The book defends the view that human actions are always
volitionally caused bodily movements and nothing else. The theory
is used to illuminate three major problems in the drafting and the
interpretation of criminal codes: 1) what the voluntary act
requirement both does and should require; 2) what complex
descriptions of actions prohibited by criminal codes both do and
should require (in addition to the doing of a voluntary act); and
3) when two actions are 'the same' for purposes of assessing
whether multiple prosecutions and multiple punishments are
warranted. The book both contributes to the development of a
coherent theory of action in philosophy, and it provides both
legislators and judges (and the lawyers who argue to both) a
grounding in three of the most basic elements of criminal
liability.
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