"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 analyzes French criminal law and compares it with English law. After introductory chapters on the evolution of French criminal law and on French criminal procedure, chapters cover actus reus, mens rea, secondary party liability, inchoate offences, and defenses. Other s…
Today we know that crime is often not just a matter of making bad decisions. Rather, there are a variety of factors that are implicated in much criminal offending--some fairly obvious, like poverty, mental illness, and drug abuse, and others less so, such as neurocognitive probl…
Changing contours of criminal justice
"Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Oxford Centre for Criminology, [this] is an edited collection of essays exploring the evolution of criminal justice over the past half century and contemplating the possible shifts over the next few decades. ... The contributors to this v…
Foundational texts in modern criminal law
"Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. It aims to contribute to the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by…
"Provides a refined analysis of the theoretical foundations which shape the statutory provisions and case law"--Page 4 of cover.
