Contents:
A plea for excuses / J.L. Austin;
Legal responsibility and excuses / H.L.A. Hart;
The individualization of excusing conditions / George P. Fletcher;
A motivational theory of excuses in the criminal law / Richard Brandt;
An economic theory of the criminal law / Richard A. Posner;
Mistakes of fact: a study in the structure of criminal conduct / Benjamin B. Sendor;
Choice, character, and excuse / Michael S. Moore;
Character, choice, and moral agency: the relevance of character to our moral culpability judgments / Peter Arenella;
A theory of justification: societal harm as a prerequisite for criminal liability / Paul H. Robinson;
The right deed for the wrong reason: a reply to Mr. Robinson / George P. Fletcher;
The perplexing borders of justification and excuse / Kent Greenawalt;
Exegesis of the law of duress: justifying the excuse and searching for its proper limits / Joshua Dressler;
Reconceptualizing necessity and duress / Michael D. Bayles. (cont.) Ascription of criminal states of mind: toward a defense theory for the coercively persuaded ("brainwashed") defendant / Richard Delgado;
Professor Delgado's "brainwashing" defense: courting a determinist legal system / Joshua Dressler;
The morality of the criminal law / David L. Bazelon;
The twilight of welfare criminology: a reply to Judge Bazelon / Stephen J. Morse;
"Rotten social background": should the criminal law recognize a defense of severe environmental deprivation? / Richard Delgado;
Background, responsibility, and excuse / George Vuoso.