Criminal Responsibility

ISBN-13: 9780199261598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 408 str.

Victor Tadros

Opis

This book provides a systematic, philosophically informed account of criminal responsibility. Part 1 of the book provides an innovative account of some of the underlying principles of criminal responsibility in the context of political theory, showing how the conditions of responsibility are articulated in, and restrained by, the institutional setting of the criminal law. Part 2 uses the insights developed in Part 1 to reconsider some of the central doctrines of criminal responsibility, examining issues including the nature of causation, intentions, and beliefs, and mental disorder defences, excuses, and justifications.

Recenzje

..it is a credit to Tadros that he has consistently managed to present his analysis of a complex subject in such a clear and well argued fashion. Each of his chapters is logically structured and ought to be accessible to anyone with a competent grasp of the key concepts of criminal law. His own characterbased theory on individual responsibility is undoubtedly original in its political and institutionalised context, and this work should prove to be a primary reference point in criminal law theory for many years to come.

O autorze

Victor Tadros is Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh.