General Defences in Criminal Law

General Defences in Criminal Law
Author: Alan Reed,Michael Bohlander
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781317129554

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The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent developments in legislation and case law. A coherent and joined-up approach is still missing. This volume provides an analysis of the main contentious areas in British law, and proposes ways forward for reform. The collection includes contributions from leading experts across various jurisdictions. Part I examines the law in the United Kingdom, with specialist contributions on Irish and Scottish law. Part II consists of contributions by authors from a number of foreign jurisdictions, all written to a common research grid for maximum comparability, which provide a wider background of how other legal systems treat problems relating to general defences in the context of the criminal law, and which may serve as points of reference for domestic law reform.

Defences to Crime

Defences to Crime
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1018
Release: 1874
Genre: Actions and defenses
ISBN: UOM:35112103603777

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Defences to Crime

Defences to Crime
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 946
Release: 1885
Genre: Actions and defenses
ISBN: UOM:35112103603710

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Rationale Based Defences in Criminal Law

Rationale Based Defences in Criminal Law
Author: Mark Dsouza
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781509902965

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PRAISE FOR THE BOOK “Despite the existing scholarly literature on criminal defences, many issues remain contested or unresolved. Dr Dsouza offers a thorough and scholarly treatment of a complex topic which can be expected to become a point of reference for future work in the field.” Professor James Chalmers, University of Glasgow “Mark Dsouza has produced an engaging, incisive and cogently argued monograph, that makes an original contribution to criminal law theory. Required reading for scholars and graduate students working on criminal law defences.” Professor Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham Although it is often accepted that rationale-based defences to criminal liability can be justificatory or excusatory, disagreements about how best to conceptualise the categories of justification and excuse have appeared so interminable that some theorists argue that they should be abandoned altogether. This book offers a novel, principled, and intuitively appealing conceptual account of the natures of justifications and excuses, showing how they differ, and why the distinction between them matters. The monograph breaks new ground by defending a model of rationale-based defences that turns solely on the quality of the defendant's reasoning. This model is shown to generate appealing liability outcomes, advance convincing solutions to questions that have puzzled criminal lawyers for years, and offer suggestions for doctrinal reform that are both normatively sound, and practical. By proposing new ways to think about defences, this book makes an original contribution to criminal law theory that will be of benefit to academics, practitioners, and persons interested in law reform.

Defences to Crime

Defences to Crime
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1088
Release: 1887
Genre: Criminal law
ISBN: SRLF:AA0008208621

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Defences to Crime

Defences to Crime
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1014
Release: 1887
Genre: Actions and defenses
ISBN: UCAL:B4312540

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Justification Defenses and Just Convictions

Justification Defenses and Just Convictions
Author: Robert F. Schopp
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1998-01-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521622110

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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.

Criminal Responsibility and Partial Excuses

Criminal Responsibility and Partial Excuses
Author: George Mousourakis
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018-12-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780429873577

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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.