Self, others and the state : relations of criminal responsibility / Arlie Loughnan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loughnan, Arlie, author.

Series:

Law in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal liability--Australia.

Criminal liability.

Criminal liability--Philosophy.

Philosophy.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xix, 305 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Criminal responsibility is now central to criminal law, but it is in need of re-examination. In the context of Australian criminal laws, Self, Others and the State reassesses the general assumptions made about the rise to prominence of criminal responsibility in the period since around the turn of the twentieth century. It reconsiders the role of criminal responsibility in criminal law, arguing that criminal responsibility is significant because it organises key sets of relations - between self, others and the state - as relations of responsibility. Detailed studies of decisive moments and developments since the turn of the twentieth century, and original explorations of relations of responsibility, expose the complexity and dynamism of criminal responsibility and reveal that it is the means by which matters of subjectivity, relationality and power make themselves felt in the criminal law.

Contents:

Part I. Rethinking criminal responsibility

Space and time in criminal responsibility

The significance of criminal responsibility

Part II. Responsibility in criminal law

Modernisation through form and process : criminal responsibility at the turn of the twentieth century

The "birth" of Australian criminal law : the role of criminal responsibility in the mid-century

Peak responsibility? : codifying criminal responsibility in the late twentieth century

Part III. Criminal responsibility in relation

Self

Others

State.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-297) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Loughnan, Arlie. Self, others and the state.

ISBN:

9781108497602

1108497608

OCLC:

1125069464