On Guilt, Responsibility and Punishment Alf RossOn Guilt, Responsibility and Punishment Alf Ross Major and controversial topics in criminology are ex- amined by one of Europe’s most distinguished jurists in this collection of six essays, three of which have never been published before. In the two introductory Chapters, Professor Ross discusses the legal concepts of guilt and responsibility and compares these with their moral and philosophical counterparts. He goes on, in Chapters 3 and 4, to examine the justifications for punishment and argues that retribution cannot by itself be an aim of punish- ment. In the last Chapters he challenges the opinion that determinism as an explanation of criminal behavior is necessarily inconsistent with morality, and he demonstrates that the statement that a man could not have acted otherwise cannot logically be extended to invalidate moral statements about his behavior. The scope for philosophical analysis in criminology is not so restricted as has been thought, and Professor Ross brings to his subject the clarity of style and wide range of learning that characterized his earlier works in jurisprudence and which gave to Qn Law and Justice and Directives and Norms the classic status they have maintained to this day. This important and provocative study will be essential reading for all students of criminology and of jurisprudence generally.ON GUILT, RESPONSIBILITY AND PUNISHMENT