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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Retributivism and the Criminal Law | |
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| Criminal Law, Punishment, and Desert | |
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| The Criminal Law and Preventing Harm | |
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| Questions about Retributivism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Culpable Choice | |
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| The Essence of Culpability: Acts Manifesting Insufficient Concern for the Legally Protected Interests of Others | |
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| Unpacking Recklessness | |
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| Folding Knowledge and Purpose into Recklessness | |
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| A Unified Conception of Criminal Culpability | |
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| Proxy Crimes | |
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| Negligence | |
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| Why Negligence Is Not Culpable | |
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| Attempts at Narrowing the Reach of Negligence Liability | |
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| The Strongest Counterexample to Our Position | |
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| The Arbitrariness of the Reasonable-Person Test | |
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| Defeaters of Culpability | |
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| Justifications and Excuses: Reorienting the Debate | |
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| Socially Justifying Reasons | |
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| Excuses | |
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| Mitigating Culpability | |
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| The Culpable Act | |
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| Only Culpability, Not Resulting Harm, Affects Desert | |
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| The Irrelevance of Results | |
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| The Intuitive Appeal of the "Results Matter" Claim | |
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| "Results Matter" Quandaries | |
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| Free Will and Determinism Reprised | |
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| The Immateriality of Results and Ancestral Culpable Acts | |
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| The Immateriality of Results and Inchoate Crimes | |
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| Inculpatory Mistakes and the Puzzle of Legally Impossible Attempts | |
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| When Are Inchoate Crimes Culpable and Why? | |
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| Our Theory of Culpable Action | |
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| Some Qualifications and Further Applications | |
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| The Locus of Culpability | |
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| The Unit of Culpable Action | |
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| Culpability for Omissions | |
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| Acts, Omission, and Duration | |
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| Individuating Crimes | |
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| A Proposed Code | |
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| What a Culpability-Based Criminal Code Might Look Like | |
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| An Idealized Culpability-Based Criminal Code | |
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| From an Idealized Code to a Practical One: Implementing Our Theory in "the Real World" | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |