Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law
Author : John Cyril Smith
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN :
Justification Defenses and Just Convictions
Author : Robert F. Schopp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 1998-01-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521622115
Book Description
This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defences that views them as an integral component of the structure of the criminal law. A definition of criminal law is included in this book.
Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law
Author : Michael Louis Corrado
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : 9780815308256
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law
Author : John Deigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195314859
Book Description
This title contains 17 original essays by leading thinkers in the field and covers the field's major topics including limits to criminalization, obscenity and hate speech, blackmail, the law of rape, attempts, accomplice liability, causation responsibility, justification and excuse, duress, and more.
Criminal Responsibility and Partial Excuses
Author : George Mousourakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 0429873573
Book Description
Publsihed in 1998, this book examines the relationship between responsibility and criminal liability through an analysis of provocation and related criminal defences. It begins by identifying fundamental questions about the role of justifications and excuses in the criminal law as they emerge from the discussion of philosophical theories of responsibility. Following an outline of the distinction between murder and manslaughter and its history, the basic doctrinal issues relating to the nature and rationale of provocation and other partial defences are then identified and discussed in depth, together with the circumstances under which these defences can be raised. Although the analysis focuses, for the most part, on English law, the references to other legal systems which are included in the work add an important comparative perspective to the discussion of the issues. The book should be of special interest to criminal lawyers, legal theorists and students interested in comparative criminal law and jurisprudence.
Excusing Crime
Author : Jeremy Horder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN :
Book Description
When should someone who may have intentionally or knowingly committed criminal wrongdoing be excused? Excusing Crime examines what excusing conditions are, and why familiar excuses, such as duress, are thought to fulfil those conditions. Setting himself against the 'classical' view of excuses, which has a long heritage, and is enshrined in different forms in many of the world's criminal codes, both liberal and non-liberal; Jeremy Horder argues that it is now time to move forwards. He contends that a wider range of excuses--'diminished capacity', 'due diligence' and 'demands of conscience'--should be recognised in law.
Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities
Author : Heidi M. Hurd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 131651045X
Book Description
Engages with the life and work of Larry Alexander to explore puzzles and paradoxes in legal and moral theory.
Rethinking Criminal Law
Author : George P. Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195136951
Book Description
This is a reprint of a book first published by Little, Brown in 1978. George Fletcher is working on a new edition which will be published by OUP in three volumes, the first of which is scheduled to appear in January 2001. Rethinking Criminal Law is still perhaps the most influential and often cited theoretical work on American criminal law. This reprint will keep this classic work available until the new edition can be published.
Permissible Killing
Author : Suzanne Uniacke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521564588
Book Description
Do individuals have a positive right of self-defence? And if so, what are the limits of this right? Under what conditions, if any, does this use of force extend to the defence of others? These are some of the issues explored by Dr Uniacke in this comprehensive philosophical discussion of the principles relevant to self-defence as a moral and legal justification of homicide. She establishes a unitary right of self-defence and defence of others, one which grounds the permissibility of the use of necessary and proportionate defensive force against culpable and non-culpable, active and passive, unjust threats. Particular topics discussed include: the nature of moral and legal justification and excuse; natural law justifications of homicide in self-defence; the Principle of Double Effect and the claim that homicide in self-defence is justified as unintended killing; and the question of self-preferential killing. This is a lucid and sophisticated account of the complex notion of justification, revolving around a critical discussion of recent trends in the law of self-defence.
Responsibility and Psychopathy
Author : Luca Malatesti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199551634
Book Description
The discussion of whether psychopaths are morally responsible for their behaviour has long taken place in philosophy. In recent years this has moved into scientific and psychiatric investigation. Responsibility and Psychopathy discusses this subject from both the philosophical and scientific disciplines, as well as a legal perspective.
