Attempts : in the philosophy of action and the criminal law /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. What are attempts and why do we criminalize them?
- Rationalizing the criminalization of attempt
- The need for an intention
- The nature of trying
- Pt. 2. The elemental conception of the intention in attempt and its implications
- The intention in attempt
- Circumstances and "impossibility"
- If it can't be done intentionally can it be tried?
- Trying by asking : solicitation as attempt
- Pt. 3. The evidential conception of the act element and its implications
- The need for an act
- Stupid plans and inherent impossibility
- The act in attempt
- Pt. 4. Sentencing attempts
- Abandonment and change of mind
- Is it unfair to punish completed crimes more than attempts?