This book examines shared intuitive notions of justice among laypersons and compares the discovered principles to those instantiated in American criminal codes.

Annotation Legal Blame sheds new light on how jurors try to do justice in the wake of accidents and reveals much about the overall psychology of jury decision m

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 to

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