Description: Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): R.A. Duff, Stuart Green Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199673674, 978-0199673674 Synopsis Twenty-five leading contemporary theorists of criminal law tackle a range of foundational issues about the proper aims and structure of the criminal law in a liberal democracy. The challenges facing criminal law are many. There are crises of over-criminalization and over-imprisonment; penal policy has become so politicized that it is difficult to find any clear consensus on what aims the criminal law can properly serve; governments seeking to protect their citizens in the face of a range of perceived threats have pushed the outer limits of criminal law and blurred its boundaries. To think clearly about the future of criminal law, and its role in a liberal society, foundational questions about its proper scope, structure, and operations must be re-examined. What kinds of conduct should be criminalized? What are the principles of criminal responsibility? How should offences and defences be defined? The criminal process and the criminal trial need to be studied closely, and the purposes and modes of punishment should be scrutinized. Such a re-examination must draw on the resources of various disciplines-notably law, political and moral philosophy, criminology and history; it must examine both the inner logic of criminal law and its place in a larger legal and political structure; it must attend to the growing field of international criminal law, it must consider how the criminal law can respond to the challenges of a changing world. Topics covered in this volume include the question of criminalization and the proper scope of the criminal law; the grounds of criminal responsibility; the ways in which offences and defences should be defined; the criminal process and its values; criminal punishment; the relationship between international criminal law and domestic criminal law. Together, the essays provide a picture of the exciting state of criminal law theory today, and the basis for further research and debate in the coming years.
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Book Title: Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law
Number of Pages: 560 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Law, Criminology
Item Height: 246 mm
Item Weight: 976 g
Type: Textbook
Author: R.A. Duff, Stuart Green
Subject Area: Criminal Law
Series: Philosophical Foundations of Law
Item Width: 177 mm
Format: Paperback
