Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Defences to Crime
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Defences to Crime
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Fundamentals of Criminal Law
Author: Andrew SimesterPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198853149
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
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.
Defences to Crime
Author: General Defences in Criminal Law
Author: Alan ReedPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317129555
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent developments in legislation and case law. A coherent and joined-up approach is still missing. This volume provides an analysis of the main contentious areas in British law, and proposes ways forward for reform. The collection includes contributions from leading experts across various jurisdictions. Part I examines the law in the United Kingdom, with specialist contributions on Irish and Scottish law. Part II consists of contributions by authors from a number of foreign jurisdictions, all written to a common research grid for maximum comparability, which provide a wider background of how other legal systems treat problems relating to general defences in the context of the criminal law, and which may serve as points of reference for domestic law reform.
Justification Defenses and Just Convictions
Author: Robert F. SchoppPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521622115
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defences that views them as an integral component of the structure of the criminal law. A definition of criminal law is included in this book.
The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in Context
Author: Charles C. JallohPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842273X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1199
Book Description
This volume analyses the prospects and challenges of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in context. The book is for all readers interested in African institutions and contemporary global challenges of peace, security, human rights, and international law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law
Author: Markus D DubberPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191654604
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law reflects the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, providing scholars with a comprehensive international resource, a common point of entry into cutting edge contemporary research and a snapshot of the state and scope of the field. To this end, the Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter, disciplinarily, geographically, and systematically. Its contributors include current and future research leaders representing a variety of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise, and research agendas. The Handbook is divided into four parts: Approaches & Methods (I), Systems & Methods (II), Aspects & Issues (III), and Contexts & Comparisons (IV). Part I includes essays exploring various methodological approaches to criminal law (such as criminology, feminist studies, and history). Part II provides an overview of systems or models of criminal law, laying the foundation for further inquiry into specific conceptions of criminal law as well as for comparative analysis (such as Islamic, Marxist, and military law). Part III covers the three aspects of the penal process: the definition of norms and principles of liability (substantive criminal law), along with a less detailed treatment of the imposition of norms (criminal procedure) and the infliction of sanctions (prison law). Contributors consider the basic topics traditionally addressed in scholarship on the general and special parts of the substantive criminal law (such as jurisdiction, mens rea, justifications, and excuses). Part IV places criminal law in context, both domestically and transnationally, by exploring the contrasts between criminal law and other species of law and state power and by investigating criminal law's place in the projects of comparative law, transnational, and international law.
ABA Standards for Criminal Justice
Author: American Bar AssociationPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570737138
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
"Project of the American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Standards Committee, Criminal Justice Section"--T.p. verso.
Offences and Defences
Author: John GardnerPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199239355
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A selection of some of the author's best-known and most provocative writings on criminal law. Although it discusses the legitimacy of criminal punishment, it proceeds on the footing that the criminal law does many important things apart from punishing people.