Through one coherent retributivist vision of the criminal law, this book explores under examined problems within criminal law theory.

Larry Alexander is the Warren Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. He is the author or co-author of five monographs, including Demystifying Legal Reasoning (Cambridge, 2008) with Emily Sherwin and Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (Cambridge, 2009) with Kimberly Ferzan. He is also the editor of four anthologies, and the author or co-author of multiple articles, essays, and book chapters on topics of legal theory, constitutional law, and moral philosophy.

Acknowledgements; 1. Crime and culpability: recounting the basic picture; Part I. Problems and Puzzles of Risking: 2. Risking other people's riskings; 3. Risks and 'other law' beliefs; 4. Omissions and culpable riskings: problems, problems; 5. Is there a case for proxy crimes? Part II. Problems and Puzzles of Culpability: 6. Moral ignorance; 7. The violator of deontological constraints; 8. Mass murders, recidivists, and volume discounts; Part III. Problems and Puzzles of Punishment: 9. The problem of psychological disconnection between the culpable actor and the person to be punished; 10. Distributing retributive desert; Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Conclusion; Index.