Action and Value in Criminal Law
Author:   Stephen Shute (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham) ,  John Gardner (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose College, Oxford) ,  Jeremy Horder (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Fellow and Tutor in Law, Worcester College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198260790


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   09 May 1996
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Stephen Shute (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham) ,  John Gardner (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose College, Oxford) ,  Jeremy Horder (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Fellow and Tutor in Law, Worcester College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9780198260790


ISBN 10:   0198260792
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   09 May 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Stephen Shute, John Gardner, and Jeremy Horder: Introduction: The Logic of Criminal Law 1: Alan Brudner: Agency and Welfare in the Penal Law 2: R.A. Duff: Acting, Trying, and Criminal Liability 3: Jennifer Hornsby: On What's Intentionally Done 4: Andrew Ashworth: Taking the Consequences 5: Michael S. Moore: Foreseeing Harm Opaquely 6: Douglas Husak and Andrew von Hirsch: Culpability and Mistake of Law 7: George P. Fletcher: The Nature of Justification 8: Paul H. Robinson: Should the Criminal Law Abandon the Actus Reus/Mens Rea Distinction? 9: Richard H.S. Tur: Subjectivism and Objectivism: Towards Synthesis 10: Stephen J. Morse: Diminished Capacity 11: K.W.M. Fulford: Value, Action, Mental Illness, and the Law

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a handsome volume, with an unusually critical prologue (to which readers in search of a longer review might turn) ... This is a collection to use Cambridge Law Journal


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