Victor Tadros

Criminal Responsibility

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a systematic, philosophically informed account of criminal responsibility. Part 1 of the book provides an innovative account of some of the underlying principles of criminal responsibility in the context of political theory, showing how the conditions of responsibility are articulated in, and restrained by, the institutional setting of the criminal law. Part 2 uses the insights developed in Part 1 to reconsider some of the central doctrines of criminal responsibility, examining issues including the nature of causation, intentions, and beliefs, and mental disorder defences, excuses, and justifications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780199261598
• ISBN-10: 0199261598
• Artikelnr.: 21251189

Autorenporträt

Victor Tadros is Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part 1: The Character of Criminal Responsibility
1. The Nature of Responsibility
2. Choice, Character and Capacity
3. Communication and the Character of Criminal Responsibility
4. The Structure of Criminal Responsibility
Part 2: Doctrines of Criminal Responsibility
5. Exemptions from Responsibility: Natural, Social and Political
6. The Nature of Causation
7. Criminal Omissions: Culpability, Responsibility and Liberty
8. The Significance of Intentions
9. The Ethics of Belief
10. Reality and Appearance in Justification Defences
11. The Characters of Excuse
12: Excusing the Mentally Disordered
13: Shifting Standards and Criminal Responsibility