ACT and Crime: The Philosophy of Action and Its Implications for Criminal Law

by Michael S. Moore

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 by bodily movements and nothing else. The theory is used to illuminate three major problems in drafting the interpretation of criminal codes: 1) what the voluntary act requirement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199599505
• ISBN13: 9780199599509
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages