Actus reus and participation in European criminal law
By: Johannes Keiler
Series: School of Human Rights Research Series -- volume 60; School of Human Rights Research series -- v. 60.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge; Antwerp; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 585
ISBN-13: 9781780681351
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Criminal law; Guilt (Law)
Description: With the coming into force of the Treaty of Lisbon the competences of the European Union in the realm of criminal law have greatly expanded. The Union, in a multitude of legislative instruments, requires its Member States to criminalize a big variety of harmful conducts. However, the criminal law legislation of the European Union has so far almost exclusively focused on specific criminal offences and has failed to develop and define general principles of criminal law. The Union frequently refers to conduct, attempt and participation in its legislation but fails to determine what these concepts should denote to. As a result the scope of European criminal law may differ among European countries as Member States will apply their national doctrines to European legislation. This book aims to step in this lacuna by establishing what actus reus and rules on participation should look like in European criminal law. In addition it investigates inchoate offences and corporate criminal liability.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-556).

In English with summaries in English and Dutch.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Perpetration : the elements of crime --; title: Modes of liability : the multiple actor scenarios --; title: Inchoate offences : attempt and preparation --; title: Criminal liability of legal entities -- -- Conclusion:; title: Towards a general part of European criminal law.