Harm and Culpability

Zusatztext 'Although this book is no doubt principally addressed to teachers and students of law, its contents touch on much that is of interest to criminologists.' Klappentext Criminal Law raises hard questions concerning such issues as what acts should be prohibited, and in what circumstances should persons who perpetrate those acts be held responsible for them? Issues of harm and culpability pervade the criminal law, challenging all who seek a principled rather than an ad hoc understanding of the rules that constitute it. Harm and Culpability contains a collection of original papers delivered at Gonville and Caius College, in Cambridge, during a seminar series devoted to the discussion of philosophical issues generated by the criminal law. Papers were presented by some of the leading Anglo-American philosophers, criminall lawyers, and legal theorists and later revised in the light of seminar discussion and editorial guidance. The result is a connected group of essays whose subject matter is topical, and in each case of both theoretical and practical significance. Zusammenfassung The present volume draws together original and significant essays from a number of leading authorities which identify areas of the modern criminal law where there are significant conceptual difficulties. The project developed from a series of seminars in cambridge University, in which leading Anglo-American philosophers, criminal lawyers and legal theorists explored subjects such as attempts, intention, justification, excuses, coercion, complicity, drug-dealing and criminal harm. The topics covered in this impressive collection were chosen for their topicality as well as their theoretical and practical significance.

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• Authors: A. P. (Senior Fellow Simester, A. P. Smith Simester, Andrew Simester, Andrew Smith Simester, Smith Simester
• Assisted by: A. P. Simester (Editor), Andrew Simester (Editor), A T Smith (Editor), A T H Smith (Editor), A. T. Smith (Editor), A. T. H. Smith (Editor), A.T.H. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.1996
• EAN: 9780198260578
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826057-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal; Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law