Results don't Matter
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
11-1-2011
Abstract
This chapter argues that harm resulting from culpability is immaterial, and that an actor who is culpable for choosing to risk harm to others and their interests for insufficient reasons sets forth the necessary and sufficient conditions for blameworthiness and punishment. It includes comments by some of the nation's top legal scholars from the field of criminal law, tackling topics such as the reducibility of crime and why criminal harm matters.
Keywords
culpability, blameworthiness, punishment, criminal law, crime reducibility, criminal harm
Publication Title
Criminal Law Conversations
Repository Citation
Ferzan, Kimberly and Alexander, Larry, "Results don't Matter" (2011). Book Chapters. 22.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_chapters/22
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199861279.003.0007
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199861279.003.0007