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Punishment and responsibility. Essays in the philosophy of law

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its arguments are as powerful as ever. H.L.A. Hart offers an alternative to retributive thinking about criminal punishment that nevertheless preserves the central distinction between guilt and innocence. He also provides an account of criminal responsibility that links the distinction betweenguilt and innocence closely to the ideal of the rule of law, and thereby attempts to by-pass unnerving debates about f.

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