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This, the twenty-seventh volume in the annual series of publications by the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, features a number of distinguised contributors addressing the topic of criminal justice. Part I considers "The Moral and Metaphysical Sources of the Criminal Law," with contributions by Michael S. Moore, Lawrence Rosen, and Martin Shapiro. The four chapters in Part II all relate, more or less directly, to the issue of retribution, with papers by Hugo Adam Bedau, Michael Davis, Jeffrie G. Murphy, and R. B. Brandt. In the following part, Dennis F. Thompson, C

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE MORAL AND METAPHYSICAL SOURCES OF THE CRIMINAL LAW -- 2. INTENTIONALITY AND THE CONCEPT OF THE PERSON -- 3. THE DECONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF INTENT -- 4. CLASSIFICATION-BASED SENTENCING: SOME CONCEPTUAL AND ETHICAL PROBLEMS -- 5. HOW TO MAKE THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME -- 6. RETRIBUTIVISM AND THE STATE'S INTEREST IN PUNISHMENT -- 7. A MOTIVATIONAL THEORY OF EXCUSES IN THE CRIMINAL LAW -- 8. CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT -- 9. A COMMENT ON "CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT" -- 10. THE LEGAL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF ORGANIZATIONS -- 11. ON THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIME -- 12. COMMENT ON "ON THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIME" -- 13. CRIME, KICKERS, AND TRANSACTION STRUCTURES -- 14. IS THERE AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF CRIME? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX