Criminal Law Theory Doctrines of the General Part [Hardcover]

Written by leading philosophers and lawyers from the United States and the United Kingdom, this collection of original essays offers new insights into the doctrines that make up the general part of the criminal law. It sheds theoretical light on the diversity and unity of the general part and advances our understanding of such key issues as criminalisation, omissions, voluntary actions, knowledge, belief, reckelssness, duress, self-defence, entrapment and officially-induced mistake of law.

General Editor's Preface
Preface
The Contributors
1. On the General Part in Criminal Law,A.P. Simester and Stephen Shute
2. Limitations on Criminalization and the General Part of Criminal Law,Douglas N. Husak
3. Rule Violations and Wrongdoings,R.A. Duff
4. The Modern General Part: Three Illusions,Paul H. Robinson
5. Making Criminal Law Known,Peter Alldridge
6. Criminal Liability for Omissions - An Inventory of Issues,Larry Alexander
7. Involuntary Crimes, Voluntarily Committed,Claire Finkelstein
8. Knowledge and Belief in the Criminal Law,Stephen Shute
9. Knowledge, Belief and Culpability,G. R. Sullivan
10. Recklessness and the Duty to Take Care,Victor Trados
11. Battered Women Who Kill Their Sleeping Tormentors: Reflections on Maintaining Respect for Human Life While Killing Moral Monsters,Joshua Dressler
12. Killing the Passive Abuser: A Theoretical Defence,Jeremy Horder
13. Testing Fidelity to Legal Values: Official Involvement and Criminal Justice,Andrew Ashworth
Index

Dr Stephen Shute is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Birmingham. He has also taught at the University of Oxford, where he was a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Corpus Christie College A.P.Simester is Professor of Legal Philosophy at l*