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In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
Nicola Lacey
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Description for In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
Paperback. Through a combined philosophical, historical, and socio-legal methodology, this volume investigates the changing nature of criminal responsibility in English law from the mid-18th Century to the early 21st Century, arguing that ideas of character responsibility are enjoying a renaissance in the modern criminal law. Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law & Justice. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; HBJD1; JKV; LAR; LNFX1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable to punishment under the criminal law? Modern lawyers will quickly and easily point to the criminal law's requirement of concurrent actus reus and mens rea, doctrines of the criminal law which ensure that someone will only be found criminally responsible if they have committed criminal conduct while possessing capacities of understanding, awareness, and self-control at the time of offense. Any notion of criminal responsibility based on the character of the offender, meaning an implication of criminality based on reputation or the assumed disposition of the person, would seem to ... Read more
What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable to punishment under the criminal law? Modern lawyers will quickly and easily point to the criminal law's requirement of concurrent actus reus and mens rea, doctrines of the criminal law which ensure that someone will only be found criminally responsible if they have committed criminal conduct while possessing capacities of understanding, awareness, and self-control at the time of offense. Any notion of criminal responsibility based on the character of the offender, meaning an implication of criminality based on reputation or the assumed disposition of the person, would seem to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law & Justice
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199248216
SKU
V9780199248216
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99-24
About Nicola Lacey
Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. From 2010 until September 2013 she was Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, and Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford. She has held a number of visiting appointments, most recently at Harvard Law ... Read more
Reviews for In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
Nicola Lacey [is one] of the most respected and influential scholars of criminal law in the Anglosphere...In Lacey's rendition of the making of modern criminal law and justice, and its changing ideas of responsibility, we learn about the role of an emerging legal profession, the development of a modern police force, the centralisation and professionalisation of the courts and the ... Read more