Criminal Law Theory

Doctrines of the General Part

By: Stephen Shute (Editor), Andrew Simester (Editor)

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Hardcover | 4 April 2002

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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.

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Between them, Shute and Sullivan do a tremendous job of bringing order and intelligibility to the mêlée of case law on knowledge and belief as mens rea elements ... The rule of law is the leitmotif of this collection ... the emphasis on the rule of law lends a certain unplanned unity to what might otherwise be a rather miscellaneous compilation of individually excellent essays. `Review from other book by this author 'Virtually every essay in this book...is of remarkably high quality: lucid, carefully argued, and grounded in a wide reading of the relevant literature. Moreover, the three co-editors have contributed a useful introduction that summarizes, connects together and critically evaluates the principal papers. I cannot imagine anyone with a serious interest in the philosophical aspects of the criminal law who would not find at least a significant part of this collection to be essential reading.' ' Law and Philosophy

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