Fundamentals of criminal law : responsibility, culpability, and wrongdoing / A P Simester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simester, A. P., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal law--Philosophy.

Criminal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This volume explores the philosophical underpinnings of the law's major doctrines concerning actus reus, mens rea, and defences, showing that they are not always driven by culpability but are grounded also in principles of moral responsibility, ascriptive responsibility, and wrongdoing.

Contents:

Cover

Fundamentals of Criminal Law

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Table of Cases

List of Abbreviations

PART I: GROUNDWORK

1. Crime, Responsibility, Culpability, and Wrongdoing

2. Structure and Nomenclature

3. Five Functions, and Two Kinds, of Mens Rea

PART II: RESPONSIBILITY

4. Moral and Ascriptive Responsibilities

5. Causation

6. Why Not-​doings are Special

7. Complicity

8. Moral Responsibility and Voluntariness

9. (Non-​volitional) Action

PART III: CULPABILITY AND WRONGDOING

10. Prolegomenon to Part III

11. A Pluralistic Theory of Culpability

12. Being Unreasonable

13. Strict and Constructive Liability

14. Outcome and Other Luck

15. Distinguishing Intended from Advertent Action

16. On the Moral Distinction between Intention and Advertence

17. Distinguishing Defences (from Offences, and from Each Other)

18. Unpacking Justifications

19. Unpacking Excuses: Hybrids and Mistakes

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-259460-5

0-19-188746-3

OCLC:

1242868308