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83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 965 (2007-2008)
The Culpability of Felony Murder

handle is hein.journals/tndl83 and id is 975 raw text is: THE CULPABILITY OF FELONY MURDER Guyora Binder* INTRODUCTION ..................................................... 966 I. THE FELONY MURDER PROBLEM ............................. 975 A. Felony Murder Mythology ............................... 975 B. Felony Murder and the Charge of Strict Liability ........... 981 C. Felony Murder and Two Conceptions of Culpability ........ 991 II. UTILITARIANISM AND COGNITIVE CULPABILITY ............... 1000 A. The Utilitarian Origins of Cognitivism ................... 1000 B. The Normativity of States of Affairs, Expectations, Preferences, and Utility ................................. 1004 C. Utilitarian Culpability and Punishment for Harmful R esults ............................................... 1009 III. RIGHTS THEORY AND COGNITIVE CULPABILITY .............. 1017 A. Contractarian Rights Theory and Cognitive Culpability ..... 1017 B. The Indeterminacy of Contractarian Rights Theory ......... 1021 C. Cognitive Culpability and Deserved Punishment for Harmful Results ............................................... 1026 IV. ExPRESSIVE CULPABILITY ................................... 1032 A. Expressive Culpability and Felony Murder ................ 1032 B. Expressive Culpability in American Criminal Law ......... 1046 C. Punishing Motives in the Liberal State ................... 1052 CONCLUSION ...................................................... 1059 © 2008 Guyora Binder. Individuals and nonprofit institutions may reproduce and distribute copies of this Article in any format, at or below cost, for educational purposes, so long as each copy identifies the author, provides a citation to the Notre Dame Law Review, and includes this provision and copyright notice. * University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. Thanks are owed to Ken Simons, Cynthia Lee, Maximo Langer, Bill Stuntz, David Sklansky, Jack Chinn, Dan Kahan, Allison Danner, Tracey Meares, Bernard Harcourt, and other participants in the Third Annual Criminal Justice Roundtable; Ken Ehrenberg, Errol Meidinger, Betty Mensch, Jack Schlegel, Ken Shockley, Rick Su, Winnie Sullivan, and other participants at a Buffalo Law Faculty Workshop; as well as Dennis Patterson, Mark Kelman, Markus Dubber, Barbara Fried, and Adil Haque for comments and suggestions. Thanks are owed to Mark Welchons for his dedicated and resourceful research assistance.

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