tailieunhanh - Criminal Law Theory: Doctrines of the General Part

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. | OXFORD Criminal Law Theory DOCTRINES OF THE GENERAL PART Edited by STEPHEN SHUTE A. p. SIMESTER OXFORD MONOGRAPHS ON CRIMINAL LAW AND JUSTICE Copyrighted material 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 criminalization omissions voluntary actions knowledge belief recklessness duress self-defence entrapment and officially induced mistake of law. The book will be of interest both to established scholars working in the field of criminal law theory and to those coming to the subject for the first time. Stephen Shute is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal lusticc 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 Christi College. A. p. Simester is Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Copyrighted material CRIMINAL LAW THEORY DOCTRINES OF THE GENERAL PART Copyrighted .