Stephen Shute / Andrew Simester (eds.)

Criminal Law Theory

Doctrines of the General Part
Herausgeber: Shute, Stephen; Simester, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Written by leading philosophers and lawyers from the United States and the United Kingdom, this collection of original essays offers new insights into the doctrines that make up the general part of the criminal law. It sheds theoretical light on the diversity and unity of the general part and advances our understanding of such key issues as criminalisation, omissions, voluntary actions, knowledge, belief, reckelssness, duress, self-defence, entrapment and officially-induced mistake of law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780199243495
• ISBN-10: 0199243492
• Artikelnr.: 22308228

Autorenporträt

Dr Stephen Shute is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Birmingham. He has also taught at the University of Oxford, where he was a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Corpus Christie College A.P.Simester is Professor of Legal Philosphy at the University of Nottingham

Inhaltsangabe

* General Editor's Preface
* Preface
* The Contributers
* 1: A.P. Simester and Stephen Shute: On the General Part in Criminal
Law
* 2: Douglas N. Husak: Limitations on Criminalization and the General
Part of Criminal Law
* 3: R.A. Duff: Rule Violations and Wrongdoings
* 4: Paul H. Robinson: The Modern General Part: Three Illusions
* 5: Peter Alldridge: Making Criminal Law Known
* 6: Larry Alexander: Criminal Liability for Omissions - An Inventory
of Issues
* 7: Claire Finkelstein: Involuntary Crimes, Voluntarily Committed
* 8: Stephen Shute: Knowledge and Belief in the Criminal Law
* 9: G. R. Sullivan: Knowledge, Belief and Culpability
* 10: Victor Trados: Recklessness and the Duty to Take Care
* 11: Joshua Dressler: Battered Women Who Kill Their Sleeping
Tormentors: Reflections on Maintaining Respect for Human Life While
Killing Moral Monsters
* 12: Jeremy Horder: Killing the Passive Abuser: A Theoretical Defence
* 13: Andrew Ashworth: Testing Fidelity to Legal Values: Official
Involvement and Criminal Justice
* Index