Fundamentals of Criminal Law: Responsibility, Culpability, and Wrongdoing

ISBN-13: 9780198853145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 544 str.

Amaladass P Andrew (Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice

Opis

This book explores the philosophical underpinnings of the law's major doctrines concerning actus reus, mens rea, and defences, showing that they are not always driven by culpability but are grounded also in principles of moral responsibility, ascriptive responsibility, and wrongdoing.

Recenzje

The book illuminates the complex relationship between morality and criminal law-how moral norms and reasons are and should be mirrored by the law, how they sometimes should not reflect one another for good institutional reasons or the preservation of liberty.

O autorze

After graduating from Auckland and Oxford, Andrew Simester started his academic career at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He moved to the National University of Singapore in 2006 and, since 2015, concurrently holds the Edmund-Davies Chair in Criminal Law at King's College London. Professor Simester received an Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University in 2019, awarded in recognition of his writings in criminal law and theory. He has published widely in these areas, and is also a lead author of two major treatises, Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law in the UK and Principles of Criminal Law in New Zealand.