Criminal Law Theory: Doctrines of the General Part

ISBN-13: 9780199243495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 344 str.

Stephen Shute; Andrew Simester

Opis

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.

Recenzje

The combined efforts of these authors address some of the fundamental 'general part' debates that underlie the specific offences that make up the criminal law ... it does successfully take the reader beyond definitional questions of the specific type of offence to ask philosophical questions of the moral and social underpinnings of our conception of criminality, that have application in criminal practice.

O autorze

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