Action and Value in Criminal Law

Paperback by Shute, Stephen (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham); Gardner, John (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose College, Oxford); Horder, Jeremy (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Fellow and Tutor in Law, Worcester College, Oxford)

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ISBN:

9780198260790

Publication Date:

9 May 1996

Language:

English

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Imprint:

Clarendon Press

Pages:

324 pages

Format:

Paperback

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Estimated despatch 28 May - 2 Jun 2024

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This is a challenging collection of essays on the theory of criminal law by leading philosophers from the UK, USA, and Canada. Ranging across such central issues as moral luck, mistake, and mental illness, Action and Value in Criminal Law aims to reorientate the study of criminal law.

Introduction: The Logic of Criminal Law ; 1. Agency and Welfare in the Penal Law ; 2. Acting, Trying, and Criminal Liability ; 3. On What's Intentionally Done ; 4. Taking the Consequences ; 5. Foreseeing Harm Opaquely ; 6. Culpability and Mistake of Law ; 7. The Nature of Justification ; 8. Should the Criminal Law Abandon the Actus Reus/Mens Rea Distinction? ; 9. Subjectivism and Objectivism: Towards Synthesis ; 10. Diminished Capacity ; 11. Value, Action, Mental Illness, and the Law

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Action and Value in Criminal Law

Action and Value in Criminal Law

Paperback by Shute, Stephen (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham); Gardner, John (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose College, Oxford); Horder, Jeremy (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Fellow and Tutor in Law, Worcester College, Oxford)

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