We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic,
unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law …

We are living through an era of increased robotisation. Some authors have already begun to
explore the impact of this robotisation on legal rules and practice. In doing so, many …

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about
moral responsibility. In one strand of our thinking, we believe that a person can become …

There is a concern that the widespread deployment of autonomous machines will open up a
number of 'responsibility gaps' throughout society. Various articulations of such techno …

One of the most frequently voiced criticisms of free will skepticism is that it is unable to
adequately deal with criminal behavior and that the responses it would permit as justified …

In this crisply written book, Hanno Sauer offers the first book-length treatment of debunking
arguments in ethics, developing an empirically informed and philosophically sophisticated …

An examination of the powerful social and psychological factors that hold the belief in moral
responsibility firmly in place. The philosophical commitment to moral responsibility seems …

People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of
other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote …

The allegation that criminal justice systems (and that of the United States in particular) have
become guilty of overcriminalization is widely accepted by academics and practitioners on …

Why do we punish? Is it because only punishment can achieve justice for victims and'right
the wrong'of a crime? Or is it justified because it reduces crime, by deterring potential …