Criminal Responsibility and Public Reason
Criminal Responsibility and Public Reason
This chapter begins with a conception of the criminal trial as the forum in which criminal responsibility is formally and publicly actualized, and with an explication of the idea of responsibility as answerability on which that conception depends. It then provides an account of criminal responsibility as a matter of being answerable to our fellow citizens for the public wrongs that we commit — a ‘public’ wrong being a wrong that properly concerns all citizens simply by virtue of their shared membership of the polity. The kind of public reason on which such answerability depends is discussed.
Keywords: criminal trial, public wrong, public accountability, citizenship
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