Choice, Character and Capacity
This chapter defends the idea that what is basic to an account of responsibility is the relationship between action and character. It is argued that, to this extent, character theories of criminal responsibility are right in their basic insight, if not in the implications that they have drawn from that insight. Alternatives which claim that responsibility is concerned primarily with choice or with capacity are shown to have more limited significance for a theory of criminal responsibility.
Keywords: choice, character, capacity, responsibility
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