Act and crime Book

1	Introduction: Criminal Law's Three Conduct Requirements	1
Pt. I	Basic Acts and the Act Requirement
2	The Doctrinal Unity of the Act Requirement	17
1	Does Criminal Law Have an Act Requirement?	17
2	Does Criminal Law Have One, Several, or Many Act Requirements?	38
3	The Orthodox View of the Act Requirement and Its Normative Defence	44
1	A Preliminary Overview of the Act Requirement	44
2	A Normative Defence of the Act Requirement	46
4	The Metaphysics of Basic Acts I: The Existence of Actions	60
1	Do Purported Descriptions of Action Not Refer?	61
2	The Supposedly Shadowy Existence of Events	65
3	Human Actions as a Natural Kind of Events	73
5	The Metaphysics of Basic Acts II: The Identity of Actions with Bodily Movements	78
1	The Identity Thesis: At Least Some Acts (the Basic Ones) Are Identical to Bodily Movements	78
2	The Exclusivity Thesis: All Acts Are Identical to Bodily Movements	109
6	The Metaphysics of Basic Acts III: Volitions as the Essential Source of Actions	113
1	Clarifying the Mental-Cause Thesis	113
2	The Argument for Volitions	133
3	The Arguments against Volitions	155
Pt. II	Complex Action Descriptions and the Actus Reus Requirement
7	The Doctrinal Basis of the Actus Reus Requirement	169
1	The Problem of Borders	171
2	Interpretivist Scepticism	183
8	Unity in Complex Action Description and in the Actus Reus Requirement	189
1	Describing Actions	192
2	The Structure of Complex Descriptions of Action	195
3	Are All Complex Descriptions of Actions Used in the Criminal Law at least Causally Complex?	213
4	Are All Causally Complex Descriptions of Actions Equivalent to Descriptions of Basic Acts Causing Further States of Affairs?	225
9	The Normative Basis for the Actus Reus Requirement	239
10	The Metaphysics of Complex Actions I: The Dependence of Complex Actions on Basic Acts	245
1	Non-willed ('Involuntary') Movements as Complex Actions?	248
2	Willings without Bodily Movements as Complex Actions?	262
3	Non-willed Non-Bodily Movements as Complex Actions?	278
11	The Metaphysics of Complex Actions II: The Identity of Complex Actions with Basic Acts	280
1	The Metaphysical Issue of Identifying Every Complex Act-Token with Some Basic Act-Token	280
2	The Legal Locatability of Actions	293
Pt. III	The Identity Conditions of Actions and the Double Jeopardy Requirement
12	The Doctrinal and Normative Basis of the Double Jeopardy Requirement	305
1	The Double Jeopardy Doctrines and their Rationale	306
2	An Introduction to the Doctrinal, Normative, and Metaphysical Scepticisms about Double Jeopardy	317
13	Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Notions of the 'Sameness' of Action-Types	325
1	Three Approaches to Act-Type Individuation	325
2	Adjudicating between the Three Approaches to Serve the Purposes of Double Jeopardy	350
14	Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Notions of the 'Sameness' of Act-Tokens	356
1	Agent-Relative and Victim-Relative Individuation of Morally Wrongful Act-Types	356
2	The Metaphysics of Act-Token Individuation	365
3	Restricting the Metaphysical Enquiry so as to Serve the Purposes of Double Jeopardy	383
	References	391
	Index	405