Criminal Law Theory

Doctrines of the General Part
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-924349-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

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. The book will be of interest both to established scholars working in the field of criminal law theory and to those coming to the subject for the first time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shute, Stephen

Simester, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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