This book of essays, including Anglo-American and European perspectives, considers strict liability in criminal law : that is, the problem of criminal offences that allow a defendant to be convicted without proof of fault.
This book of essays, including Anglo-American and European perspectives, considers strict liability in criminal law: that is, the problem of criminal offences that allow a defendant to be convicted without proof of fault.
"Appraising Strict Liability is a collection of original contributions offering the first full-length consideration of the problem of strict liability in the criminal law. The chapters, including European and Anglo-American perspectives, provide a sustained and wide-ranging exam…
This book celebrates Andreas (Andrew) von Hirsch's pioneering contributions to liberal criminal theory. He is particularly noted for reinvigorating desert-based theories of punishment, for his development of principled normative constraints on the enactment of criminal laws, and…
This collection brings together distinguished international authors, who pay tribute to von Hirsch by engaging with topics on which he himself has focussed. Together, they articulate and defend the ideal of a liberal criminal justice system.