Defining crimes
Subtitle: essays on the special part of the criminal law
By: edited by R.A. Duff and Stuart P. Green.
Contributors: Duff, Antony.; Green, Stuart P.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Criminal law -- Great Britain.; Criminal law.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the special part and its problems / R.A. Duff and Stuart P. Green; title: The classification of crimes and the special part of the criminal law / Jeremy Horder; title: Criminalizing endangerment / R.A. Duff; title: Malum prohibitum and retributivism / Douglas Husak; title: The possession paradigm : the special part and the police power model of the criminal process / Markus Dirk Dubber; title: The distinctiveness of domestic abuse : a freedom-based account / Victor Tadros; title: What's wrong with bribery / Stuart P. Green; title: On the nature and rationale of property offences /  A.P. Simester and G.R. Sullivan; title: Is strict liability rape defensible? / Kyron Huigens; title: Merger and felony murder / Claire Finkelstein.