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This is a reply to Alex Guerrero’s, Erin Kelly’s and Gabe Mendlow’s commentaries on Gideon Yaffe’s The Age of Culpability: Children and the Nature of Criminal Responsibility. The reply focuses on their objections concerning the nature of legal reasons, desert, and the political arrangements that make a difference to criminal culpability.
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In the book I explain why not everyone denied a say over the law can offer this objection. Visitors and immigrants, for instance, cannot offer the objection, even though it would be valid were they permitted to offer it. See chapter 7.
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Yaffe, G. Legal Reasons, Legal Desert, Legal Culpability: Reply to Guerrero, Kelly and Mendlow. J Ethics 24, 295–306 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-020-09332-4
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