Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of criminal law /
This book reflects the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, providing scholars with a comprehensive international resource, a common point of entry into cutting edge contemporary research and a snapshot of the state and scope of the field. To this end, the Handbook take...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: |
2016. ©2014 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Oxford handbooks
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| Summary: |
This book reflects the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, providing scholars with a comprehensive international resource, a common point of entry into cutting edge contemporary research and a snapshot of the state and scope of the field. To this end, the Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter, disciplinarily, geographically, and systematically. Its contributors include current and future research leaders representing a variety of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise, and research agendas. The book is divided into four parts: Approaches & Methods (I), Systems & Methods (II), Aspects & Issues (III), and Contexts & Comparisons (IV). Part I includes essays exploring various methodological approaches to criminal law (such as criminology, feminist studies, and history). Part II provides an overview of systems or models of criminal law, laying the foundation for further inquiry into specific conceptions of criminal law as well as for comparative analysis (such as Islamic, Marxist, and military law). Part III covers the three aspects of the penal process: the definition of norms and principles of liability (substantive criminal law), along with a less detailed treatment of the imposition of norms (criminal procedure) and the infliction of sanctions (prison or corrections law). Contributors consider the basic topics traditionally addressed in scholarship on the general and special parts of the substantive criminal law (such as jurisdiction, mens rea, justifications, and excuses). Part IV places criminal law in context, both domestically and transnationally, by exploring the contrasts between criminal law and other species of law and state power and by investigating criminal law's place in the projects of comparative law, transnational, and international law. |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 1203 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199673605 0199673608 9780199673599 0199673594 |
| Index Number: | K5015 |
| CLC: | D914-62 |
| Call Number: | D914-62/O984 |
| Contents: |
Criminology / Critical Race Theory / Economic Analysis of Criminal Law / Feminist Approaches to Criminal Law / The Transition to Modernity / Law and Literature / Philosophy / Criminal Law and Sociology / Criminal Law and Technology in Data-Driven Society / Medieval Canon Law : the Origins of Modern Criminal Law/ Indigenous Legal Traditions : Roots to Renaissance / Islamic Criminal Law / Jewish Law / Marxist and Soviet Law / Military Law / Theories of Crime and Punishment / Codification / Jurisdiction / Constitutional Principles / Acts and Actus Reus / Causation / Subjective Elements of Criminal Liability / Inchoate Offenses / Complicity / Corporate Criminal Liability / Necessity/Duress / Self-Defense / The Defense of Consent / Insanity and Intoxication / Theories of Criminalization / Homicide / Offenses Against the Person / Sexual Autonomy / Property Offenses / Drug Offenses / Terrorism / "White Collar" Crimes / Public Welfare Offenses / The Long Shadow of the Adversarial and Inquisitorial Categories / Discretion / Types of Punishment / Sentencing / Prison Law / Paradigms of Penal Law / Public and Private Law / Regulatory Offenses and Administrative Sanctions : Between Criminal and Administrative Law / Comparative Criminal Law / European Criminal Law / International Criminal Law / |