by Alf Ross (Ph.D. (Uppsala), Jur.D. (Copenhagen), Hon. Jur. D. (Oslo and Lund); sometime professor of law at the University of Copenhagen)
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Los Angeles :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of California Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1975.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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x, 183 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Translation, chiefly by Alastair Hannay, of: Skyld, ansvar og straf.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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On guilt -- On responsibility -- The aim of punishment -- The campaign against punishment -- On determinism and morality -- He could have acted otherwise.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Selected essays originally published as a book in Danish in 1970. Three had been published before then in English, but the others are new. All deal with concepts common to law and morality. "They function in the same way in legal and moral discourse: guilt determines responsibility, and responsibility punishment. But the conditions under which a person incurs guilt differ according to whether the guilt is legal or moral, as do also the manner in which the responsibility takes effect and the penal reaction itself." Cf. Preface, page v.