Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach

ISBN-13: 9780198794226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 720 str.

Markus D. Dubber;Tatjana Hornle

Opis

Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the substantive criminal law of two major jurisdictions: the United States and Germany.
Presupposing no familiarity with either U.S. or German criminal law, the book will provide criminal law scholars and students with a rich comparative understanding of criminal law's foundations and central doctrines. All foreign-language sources have been translated into English; cases and materials are accompanied by heavily cross-referenced introductions and notes that place them within the framework of each country's criminal law system and highlight issues ripe for comparative analysis.
Divided into three parts, the book covers foundational issues - such as constitutional limits on the criminal law - before tackling the major features of the general part of the criminal law and a selection of offences in the special part. Throughout, readers are exposed to alternative approaches to familiar problems in criminal law, and as a result will have a chance to see a given country's criminal law doctrine, on specific issues and in general, from the critical distance of comparative analysis.

Recenzje

Dubber and Hörnle Criminal Law is a pioneering piece of comparative law scholarship. Avoiding the kaleidoscope of multiple systems description, this innovative book offers a profound and detailed analysis of two major criminal law traditions: the US and the German one. Taking so seriously the comparative approach, Dubber and Hörnle allow the reader to understand not only the essential features of the examined systems, but also the very nature of fundamental principles, doctrines, and critical decisions that shape the criminal law almost everywhere today.