The ethics and law of omissions / edited by Dana Kay Nelkin, Samuel C. Rickless
- Bib ID:
- 7501504
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- 1 online resource ( 241 pages.) :
- ISBN:
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- 9780190683467 ((electronic bk.))
- 0190683465 ((electronic bk.))
- 0190683481
- 9780190683481
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9780190683450
- Full contents:
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- Cover; The Ethics and Law of Omissions; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Omissions, Moral Responsibility, and the Self; 1. Unintentional Omissions; 2. Omission and Attribution Error; 3. Unconscious Omissions, Reasonable Expectations, and Responsibility; Part II: Omissions, Moral Responsibility, and Control; 4. Blameworthiness and Unwitting Omissions; 5. Omissions, Agency, and Control; 6. Moral Responsibility for Unwitting Omissions: A New Tracing View; Part III: Omissions, Moral Responsibility, and Alternative Possibilities
- 7. The Puzzle(s) of Frankfurt-Style Omission Cases8. Responsibility and Omissions; Part IV: Criminal Liability for Omissions; 9. Courses of Conduct; 10. Duties to Act Triggered by Creation of the Peril: Easy Cases, Puzzling Cases, and Complex Culpability; Part V: The Duty Requirement in the Criminal Law of Omissions; 11. The Duty Requirement; 12. Omissions, Acts, and the Duty to Rescue; Index
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Subject:
- Omission, Criminal
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