In this book Arthur Ripstein justifies the content of tort and criminal law on the strength of the view that such content reflects what fair terms of interaction require in the way of allocating instances of misfortune in criminal and civil disputes. The book also examines responsibility and luck as there issues arise in tort law, criminal law, and distributive justice. In revealing how the problems that arise in tort and criminal law as well as distributive justice. In revealing how the problems that arise in tort and criminal law as well as distributive justice invite structurally parallel solutions, the author also shows the deep connection between individual responsibility and social equality. Ripstein theory attempts to show how fair terms of interaction take equality, responsibility, and reciprocity into account in allocating misfortunes and how tort and criminal law defines such terms. One of the central claims of the book is that individual responsibility and social equality need to be understood together. In the first part of the book, Ripstein considers the issue of how to allocate misfortunes that arise when parties fail to exercise appropria

te care. Chapter 2 examines two libertarian approaches. Ripstein rejects the voluntarism view that any loss not resulting from intentional force or fraud should be left with the plaintiff because this view allows “each person unilaterally set the terms of interaction with others.” For whether a person is liable for a loss depends on what she knows and intended with respect to her behavior. Ripstein rejects the casuals view that losses should be allocated to whomever is causally responsible because both parties to a negligence dispute are always causally responsible; had the plaintiff stayed home, she wouldn’t have slipped on a banana pee; carelessly left on the floor by the defendant. In chapter 3, Ripsten develops the idea that liability for the unintended consequences of one’s behavior should be theoretically grounded in terms that assign risk and injury ownership on the basic of fault. An adequate theory of liability must distinguish those third-party risks for which the actor is liable (i.e. those the agent owns) from those for which the actor isn’t liable in a fair and principled way. This requires that the interests of liberty and security be balanced in a way that respects the equality of all the parties. In the second part of the book Repstein attempts to determine what fair terms of interaction require in the way of criminal principles and practices. In chapter five, Repstein offers a distinction between behavior that is criminal and behavior that is merely tortuous. At the most general level, Ripstein sketches the distinction terms of the difference between taking a risk and choosing a risk whereas negligence merely involve the failure to satisfy public standards of reasonableness, criminal act are “those acts in which one person seed to substitute private rationally for public standards of reasonableness.” Conceiving of the relation between negligence and criminality in this way enables Ripstein to plausibly characterize crimes as “torts with something added.” What crimes add to torts, on Ripstein view, has nothing to do with the gravity of the consequences, for “a carelessly discarded cigarette may have the same consequences as deliberate arson. (p.g.148) In my opinion I do not believe that negligence such as a discarded cigarette id the same thing as arson, but at the same time both of them are crimes, which need to be punishment. Maybe not to the same at stint as arson, but the person need the be held accountable for the written rules of the law. In Ripstein opinion, what crimes add to torts is insult to injury; a criminal act denies the significance of the victim’s rights by trading them away to the criminal’s advantage. Thus, punishment is needed on Ripstein view, to vindicate the

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