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. 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.
GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE ; PREFACE ; THE CONTRIBUTERS ; 1. On the General Part in Criminal Law ; 2. Limitations on Criminalization and the General Part of Criminal Law ; 3. Rule Violations and Wrongdoings ; 4. The Modern General Part: Three Illusions ; 5. Making Criminal Law Known ; 6. Criminal Liability for Omissions - An Inventory of Issues ; 7. Involuntary Crimes, Voluntarily Committed ; 8. Knowledge and Belief in the Criminal Law ; 9. Knowledge, Belief and Culpability ; 10. Recklessness and the Duty to Take Care ; 11. Battered Women Who Kill Their Sleeping Tormentors: Reflections on Maintaining Respect for Human Life While Killing Moral Monsters ; 12. Killing the Passive Abuser: A Theoretical Defence ; 13. Testing Fidelity to Legal Values: Official Involvement and Criminal Justice ; INDEX
