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Part 1 Jurisprudential issues: a functional analysis of criminal law;desert, punishment and criminal responsibility; crime, punishment and palecriminality; the feminist challenge in criminal law; an economic analysis ofthreats and their illegality - blackmail, extortion and robbery. Part 2Doctrinal issues - the limits of responsibility: wilful ignorance, knowledgeand the equality culpability thesis - a study of the deeper significance ofthe principle of legality; ignorance of law is an excuse - but only for thevirtuous; exegesis of the law of duress - justifying the excuse and searchingfor its proper limits; a theory of necessity. Part 3 Punishment: the decisionto punish - emotional justice moralizing the passions of criminalresponsibility, torture and pleas bargaining; justifying punishment - theutility of desert, social influence, social meaning and deterrence.