Answering for Crime Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 166.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2007
Verlag
Hart PublishingSeitenzahl
342
Maße (L/B/H)
24/16.1/2.3 cm
Gewicht
681 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-84113-753-7
This long-awaited book, by the celebrated philosopher Antony Duff, offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability. The book's starting point is a distinction between responsibility (understood as answerability) and liability, and a conception of responsibility as relational and practice-based. This focus on responsibility, as a matter of being answerable to those who have the standing to call one to account, throws new light on a range of questions in criminal law theory: on the question of criminalization, which can now be cast as the question of what we should have to answer for, and to whom, under the threat of criminal conviction and punishment; on questions about the criminal trial, as a process through which defendants are called to answer, and about the conditions (bars to trial) given which a trial would be illegitimate; on questions about the structure of offenses, the distinction between offenses and defenses, and the phenomena of strict li
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