Defining Crimes - Essays on the Special Part of the Criminal Law

Zusatztext This book..constitutes a welcome and timely contribution to what is undoubtedly a growing interest in this field Informationen zum Autor Professor R.A. Duff, Department of Philosophy, University of StirlingEducated at Oxford; after a year at University of Washington, Seattle, has taught at Stirling since 1970. British Academy Research Readership 1989-91; Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship 2002-05; FRSE 1996, FBA 2004Professor Stuart P. Green, Louis B Porterie Professor of Law, Louisiana State UniversityGraduate of Yale Law School; has taught at Louisiana State University since 1995. Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in U.K. 2002-03. Klappentext This collection of essays tackle a range of issues about the criminal law's 'special part' - the part that defines specific offences. Topics include the scope of the criminal law: to what extent should it include offences of possession, or endangerment? Regulatory offences and more specific offences such as murder, rape, domestic violence, bribery, theft and other property offences are also discussed. How crimes should be classified and the orthodox distinctionbetween crimes of 'basic' and of 'general' intent are examined. Other issues concern the ways in which specific offences should be defined, and how far those definitions should identify distinctive types of wrong Zusammenfassung Presents a collection of essays which tackle a range of issues about the criminal law's 'special part' - the part that defines specific offences. This work covers topics that include the scope of the criminal law: to what extent should it include offences of possession, or endangerment?

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• Authors: R. A. Duff, R. A. Green Duff, R.a. ( Duff, R.a. Green Duff
• Assisted by: Anthony Duff (Editor), R. A. Duff (Editor), R.A. Duff (Editor), Stuart Green (Editor), Stuart P. Green (Editor), Green Stuart (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2005
• EAN: 9780199269228
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926922-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal; Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law