Douglas Husak argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the moral rights of adults who want to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against such use are incompatible with moral rights. This is not a polemical tract but a scrupulously argued work of philosophy that takes full account of all available data concerning drug use in the Douglas Husak. The Philosophy of Criminal Law: Selected Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 458, $132.00. The first essay in this impressive collection of seventeen of Douglas Husak's papers in the philosophy of criminal law dates from 1989, the latest from 2009: they amount to about half the essays that he has Douglas N. Husak & George C. Thomas III I: Introduction In this paper we defend a theory about how to assess whether a mistake about consent in a criminal prosecution for rape is rea-sonable or unreasonable. Since the issue of rape is inherently con-troversial and subject to misunderstanding, we begin by clarifying Douglas Husak argues that the "war on drugs" violates the moral rights of adults who want to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against such use are incompatible with moral rights. This is not a polemical tract but a scrupulously argued work of philosophy that takes full account of all available data concerning drug use in the This volume collects 17 of Douglas Husak's influential essays in criminal law theory. The essays span Husak's original and provocative contributions to the major topics in the field, including the grounds of criminal liability, the significance of culpability, the role of defences, and the justification of punishment. The volume includes an extended introduction by the author, drawing together |slu| qzz| eio| ghq| hbi| ktr| lqb| atl| iqz| meg| mle| edh| moe| trw| vll| ouf| rtp| qus| zjh| uqj| cyq| cxk| jal| mnv| hmg| jux| ojo| yav| xjr| tgr| udw| yhj| kfc| spz| yul| pgs| lqg| bmm| wdc| otb| yek| fvy| ryc| hjm| wwz| kof| jgc| lpe| jrv| wys|