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This is a collection of essays written by Moore which form a
thorough examination of the theory of criminal responsibility. The
author covers a wide range of topics, giving the book a coherence
and unity which is rare in assembled essays. Perhaps the most
significant feature of this book is Moore's espousal of a
retributivist theory of punishment. This anti-utilitarian
standpoint is a common thread throughout the book. It is also a
trend which is currently manifesting itself in all areas of moral,
political and legal philosophy, but Moore is one of the first to
apply such attitudes so sytematically to criminal law theory. As
such, this innovative, new book will be of great interest to all
scholars in this field.
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Michael S. Moore; Foreword by Baruch A Levine
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The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and
legal responsibility for events. Yet the relationship between
causation and responsibility remains unclear. What precisely is the
connection between the concept of causation used in attributing
responsibility and the accounts of causal relations offered in the
philosophy of science and metaphysics? How much of what we call
causal responsibility is in truth defined by non-causal factors?
This book argues that much of the legal doctrine on these questions
is confused and incoherent, and offers the first comprehensive
attempt since Hart and Honore to clarify the philosophical
background to the legal and moral debates.
The book first sets out the place of causation in criminal and
tort law and then outlines the metaphysics presupposed by the legal
doctrine. It then analyses the best theoretical accounts of
causation in the philosophy of science and metaphysics, and using
these accounts criticizes many of the core legal concepts
surrounding causation - such as intervening causation,
forseeability of harm and complicity. It considers and rejects the
radical proposals to eliminate the notion of causation from law by
using risk analysis to attribute responsibility. The result of the
analysis is a powerful argument for revising our understanding of
the role played by causation in the attribution of legal and moral
responsibility.
Using as their starting point a 1976 Newsweek cover story on the
emerging politicization of evangelical Christians, contributors to
this collection engage the scholarly literature on evangelicalism
from a variety of angles to offer new answers to persisting
questions about the movement. The standard historical narrative
describes the period between the 1925 Scopes Trial and the early
1970s as a silent one for evangelicals, and when they did re-engage
in the political arena, it was over abortion. Randall J. Stephens
and Randall Balmer challenge that narrative. Stephens moves the
starting point earlier in the twentieth century, and Balmer
concludes that race, not abortion, initially motivated activists.
In his examination of the relationship between African Americans
and evangelicalism, Dan Wells uses the Newsweek story's sidebar on
black activist and born-again Christian Eldridge Cleaver to
illuminate the former Black Panther's uneasy association with white
evangelicals. Daniel K. Williams, Allison Vander Broek, and J.
Brooks Flippen explore the tie between evangelicals and the
anti-abortion movement as well as the political ramifications of
their anti-abortion stance. The election of 1976 helped to
politicize abortion, which both encouraged a realignment of
alliances and altered evangelicals' expectations for candidates,
developments that continue into the twenty-first century. Also in
1976, Foy Valentine, leader of the Southern Baptist Christian Life
Commission, endeavored to distinguish the South's brand of
Protestant Christianity from the evangelicalism described by
Newsweek. Nevertheless, Southern Baptists quickly became associated
with the evangelicalism of the Religious Right and the South's
shift to the Republican Party. Jeff Frederick discusses
evangelicals' politicization from the 1970s into the twenty-first
century, suggesting that southern religiosity has suffered as
southern evangelicals surrendered their authenticity and adopted a
moral relativism that they criticized in others. R. Ward Holder and
Hannah Dick examine political evangelicalism in the wake of Donald
Trump's election. Holder lays bare the compromises that many
Southern Baptists had to make to justify their support for Trump,
who did not share their religious or moral values. Hannah Dick
focuses on media coverage of Trump's 2016 campaign and contends
that major news outlets misunderstood the relationship between
Trump and evangelicals, and between evangelicals and politics in
general. The result, she suggests, was that the media severely
miscalculated Trump's chances of winning the election.
Marine enzymes and specialized metabolism - Part B, Volume 605 in
the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights experimental methods
on diverse marine enzymes involved in the construction of bioactive
natural product molecules. Unique sections in this new release
include discussions on polysaccharide-degrading enzymes from marine
gastropods, radical SAM epimerases from sponge microbes, DMS/P
demethylase in bacteria, reconstitution of particulate methane
monooxygenase into membrane mimetics, the structure and function of
cyanobactin enzymes, marine cyanobacterial polyketide
beta-branching enzymology, marine cyanobacterial PKS-NRPS
enzymology and structural biology, biochemical profiling of DMSP
lyases, and more.
This book is a sophisticated, detailed, and original examination of
the main ideas that have dominated Anglo-American legal philosophy
since the Second World War. The author probes such themes as:
whether there can be right answers to all disputed law cases; how
laws and other rules impact on the practical rationality of actors
subject to their authority; whether general principles justifying
the law must themselves be thought of as part of the law binding on
legal actors; and the possibility of an interpretivist
jurisprudence that is continuous with law practice in a given
culture.
Improving health in populations in which health is poor is a
complex process. This book argues that the traditional government
approach of exhorting individuals to live healthier lifestyles is
not enough - action to promote public health needs to take place
not just through public agencies, but also by engaging community
assets and resources in their broadest sense. The book reports
lessons from the experience of planning, establishing and
delivering such action by the five-year Sustainable Health Action
Research Programme (SHARP) in Wales. It critically examines the
experience of SHARP in relation to current literature on policy;
community health and health inequalities; and action research. The
authors make clear how this regional development has produced
opportunities for developing general concepts and theory about
community-based policy developments that are relevant across
national boundaries and show that complex and sustained community
action, and effective local partnership, are fundamental components
of the mix of factors required to address health inequalities
successfully. The book concludes by indicating the connections
between SHARP and earlier traditions of community-based action, and
by arguing that we need to be bolder in our approaches to
community-based health improvement and more flexible in our
understanding of the ways in which knowledge and inform
developments in health policy. The book will be of interest to
practitioners and activists working in community-based projects;
students in community development, health studies and medical
sociology; professionals working in health promotion, community
nursing and allied areas; and policy makers working at local,
regional and national levels.
 Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider’s view of
artmaking in Guantánamo, the world’s most notorious prison, as
self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human
rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to
be recognized as human. The book juxtaposes detainee artist Moath
al-Alwi’s testimony and artwork with essays that situate his work
within legal, political, aesthetic, and material contexts to
demonstrate that artwork at Guantánamo constitutes important forms
of material witnessing to human rights abuses perpetrated and
denied by the U.S. government.Â
The past decade has seen the emergence of new types of trade union
representatives attracting new and more diverse activists; this
book explores their motivations and values, drawing upon the voices
of the activists themselves and capturing the relationship between
work, social identity and class consciousness.
This practical textbook by David Moore and William Notz introduces
a conceptual approach to statistics and shows students how use
these ideas to think about the statistical claims they see every
day from polls, campaigns, advertising, public policy, and many
different fields of study. The ultimate goal is to equip students
with solid statistical reasoning skills that will help them
understand impact of statistics on all aspects of their lives.
Marine enzymes and specialized metabolism - Part A, Volume 604
highlights experimental methods on diverse marine enzymes involved
in the construction of bioactive natural product molecules. These
detailed protocols are written by experts who actively study and
apply marine enzymes in biosynthesis and biotechnology.
Comprehensive chapters in this latest release cover Chemoenzymatic
synthesis of starting materials and characterization of halogenases
requiring acyl carrier protein tethered substrates, Assaying
biradical aryl coupling activity of CYP450 enzymes, the
Characterization and application of marine microbial omega-3
polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis, Catalase-related allene oxide
synthase: on a biosynthetic route to fatty acid cyclopentenones,
Haloalkane dehalogenases from marine microorganisms, and more.
Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization,
Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War
geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to
demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a
so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent and dynamic
events of the 20th century. The book argues that what continued to
operate throughout these tumultuous eras were engineering networks
of technology. Constructed at first for colonial development under
Japan, these networks transformed into channels of overseas
development aid that constituted the Cold War system in Asia.
Through highlighting how these networks helped shape Asia's
contemporary economic landscape, Engineering Asia challenges
dominant narratives in Western scholarship of an 'economic miracle'
in Japan and South Korea, and the 'Asian Tigers' of Southeast Asia.
Students and scholars of East Asian studies, development studies,
postcolonialism, Cold War studies and the history of technology and
science will find this book immensely useful.
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