The Role of Responsibility in the Criminal Law

There's more than one way in which we structure our practices of responsibility attribution. Criminal law quite often decides to attribute responsibility based on the idea that we have simply caused an outcome. The notion of criminal responsibility isn't fixed for all time, partly determined socially and scientifically. What is criminal responsibility today is different from what it was in the 18th century,. It will inevitably be different in 100 years time, 50 years time. That is a fair summary of what I'm saying. Although there will be family resemblances.