Defining crimes : essays on the special part of the criminal law
Duff
Duff, AntonyContributor
Green, Stuart PContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2005.
This collection of original essays, by some of the best know contemporary criminal law theorists, tackles a range of issues about the criminal law's 'special part' - the part of the criminal law that defines specific offences.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection of original essays, by some of the best know contemporary criminal law theorists, tackles a range of issues about the criminal law's 'special part' - the part of the criminal law that defines specific offences.
Description based on print version record.
Introduction : the special part and its problems / R.A. Duff and Stuart P. Green -- The classification of crimes and the special part of the criminal law / Jeremy Horder -- Criminalizing endangerment / R.A. Duff -- Malum prohibitum and retributivism / Douglas Husak -- The possession paradigm : the special part and the police power model of the criminal process / Markus Dirk Dubber -- The distinctiveness of domestic abuse : a freedom-based account / Victor Tadros -- What's wrong with bribery / Stuart P. Green -- On the nature and rationale of property offences /  A.P. Simester and G.R. Sullivan -- Is strict liability rape defensible? / Kyron Huigens -- Merger and felony murder / Claire Finkelstein.
Criminal law
Criminal law
Law - Great Britain
Law - Non-U.S.
Law, Politics & Government