Culpable Carelessness - Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law

A doctrinal and theoretical analysis of culpability for unjustified risk-taking in Anglo-American criminal law.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The doctrinal trend towards the Standard Account; 3. Consistency in definition; 4. From awareness to belief; 5. Beyond belief: knowledge and awareness of risk; 6. The significance of awareness of risk; 7. Culpability beyond awareness of risk - some existing accounts; 8. Negligence as failure of belief; 9. Some practicalities.

About the author

Findlay Stark is University Lecturer in Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. His research and teaching centres around various aspects of criminal law, criminal procedure and criminal evidence.

Summary

Findlay Stark examines the criminal law's response to risk-taking in a range of jurisdictions, and argues that the various approaches are converging, to differing extents, around a 'Standard Account' of culpable unjustified risk-taking.

Product details

• Authors: Findlay Stark, Findlay (University of Cambridge) Stark, Stark Findlay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781107038905
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03890-5
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, Legal aspects of criminology, Criminology: legal aspects, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law