General Introduction: The Basic Question of the Book
* The Concept of Moral Legitimacy * The Idea of a Liberty-Limiting Prinviple * Commonly Proposed Liberty-Limiting Principles * Liberalism * Methodology * Primary and Derrivative Crimes * Alternatives to the Criminal Law * Skepticism
VOLUME ONE: HARM TO OTHERS
I Harms as Setbacks to Interest: Meaning of "Harm"
* Welfare Interests and Ulterior Interests * Interests and Wants * Harms, Hurts, and Offenses * The Manner in which Acts and Other Events Affect Interests When They Do Harm * The Concept of an Interest Network * Legally Protectable Interests *
II Puzzling Cases: Moral Harm
* Other-Regarding Interests and Vicarious Harms * Death and Posthumous Harms * Surviving Interests * The Proper Subject of Surviving Interests * Doomed Interest and the Dating of Harm * A Note on Posthumous Wrongs * Birth and Prenatal Harms *
III Harming as Wronging: The Verbal Forms: To Harm and to Wrong
* Harming and Injuring * Moral Indefensibility * Harming as Right-Violating * Harm and Consent: the Volenti maxim * The Concept of a Victim * The "Casual Component" in Harming *
IV Failing to Prevent Harm: East Rescue and the Bad Samaritan
* The Confusion of Active Aid with Gratuitous Benefit * Lord macauley's Line-Drawing Problem * Omissions an Other Inactions * Are Legal Duties to Rescue Undue Interference with Liberty? * The Moral Significance of Causation * The Consequences of Omissions * The Exclusion of Causally Irrelevant Necessary Conditions * Summary *
V Assessing and Comparing Harms: Mediating Maxims for the Application of the Harm Principle
* The Magnitude of the Harm * The Probability of the Harm * Aggregative Harms * Statistical Discrimination and the Net Reductiom of Harm * The Relative Importance of the Harm * The Interest in Liberty on the Scales * Summary of Restrictions on the Harm Principle *
VI Fairly Imputing Harms: Comparative Interests
* Harm to Public Interests * Accumulative Harms * Environmental Pollution as a Public Accumulative Harm * Imitative Harms * Summary of Additional Restrictions to the Harm Principle *
Notes * Index