Criminal Responsibility [Hardcover]

This book provides a systematic, philosophically informed account of criminal responsibility. Part 1 of the book provides an innovative account of some of the underlying principles of criminal responsibility in the context of political theory, showing how the conditions of responsibility are articulated in, and restrained by, the institutional setting of the criminal law. Part 2 uses the insights developed in Part 1 to reconsider some of the central doctrines of criminal responsibility, examining issues including the nature of causation, intentions, and beliefs, and mental disorder defences, excuses, and justifications.


Introduction
Part 1: The Nature of Criminal Responsibility
1. The Nature of Autonomy
2. Autonomy and Responsibility
3. The Character of Criminal Responsibility
4. Responsibility, Ethics and the Rule of Law
Part 2: Doctrines of the General Part
5. Causation in the Criminal Law: Ethical, Political and Natural
6. Autonomy and Responsibility in Criminal Omissions
7. The Role of Intentions in the Criminal Law
8. Knowledge and Belief: An Account in Law and Ethics
9. Reality and Appearance in Justification Defences
10: Mental Disorder Defences I: Beyond the Act
11: Mental Disorder Defences II: Disrupting the Act
12: Excuses 1: The Characters of Excuse
13: Excuses 2: Shifting Standards and Criminal Responsibility

Victor Tadros is Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh.