Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter iii
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part I. Introduction: The Need for a Theoretical Foundation of Accident Law 1
5. 1. The Renaissance of Accident Law Plans 3
6. 2. Some Common Areas of Confusion 17
7. 3. Goals and Subgoals of Accident Law 24
8. Part II. Subgoals of Accident Cost Reduction and Methods for Achieving Them 35
9. 4. Secondary Accident Cost Avoidance: The Loss Spreading and Deep Pocket Methods 39
10. 5. Primary Accident Cost Avoidance: The General Deterrence Approach 68
11. 6. Primary Accident Cost Avoidance: The Specific Deterrence Approach 95
12. Part III. Two Major Problems in Reducing Primary Accident Costs 131
13. 7. Which Activities Cause Which Accident Costs: The General Deterrence Approach 135
14. 8. Which Activities Cause Which Accident Costs: The Specific Deterrence Approach 174
15. 9. What Is the Cost? 198
16. Part IV. The Fault System and Accident Cost Reduction 237
17. 10. The Fault System and General Detenence 244
18. 11. The Fault System and Specific Deterrence 266
19. 12. The Fault System as a Mixed System of Primary Cost Control 274
20. 13. The Fault System and Secondary Cost Avoidance—Possible Modifications 278
21. 14. The Costs of the Fault System 286
22. Part V. Justice and the Fault System 289
23. 15. The Moral Framework—Consistency and History 293
24. 16. The Fairness of the Fault System 301
25. Part VI. Toward a New System of Accident Law 309
26. List of Works Cited 319
27. Analytical Table of Contents 327
28. Index 333