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In search of criminal responsibility : ideas, interest and institutions
- Title
- In search of criminal responsibility : ideas, interest and institutions / Nicola Lacey.
- Author
- Lacey, Nicola.
- Publication
- Corby : Oxford University Press 2016.
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- Description
- 200 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable tof 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 today's criminal lawyer a relic of the 18th Century. In this volume, Nicola Lacey demonstrates that the practice of character-based patterns of attribution was not laid to rest in 18th Century criminal law, but is alive and well in contemporary English criminal responsibility-attribution.0.
- Series Statement
- Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
- Uniform Title
- Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-5138
- ISBN
- 9780199248209
- 0199248206
- OCLC
- 929590511
- Author
- Lacey, Nicola.
- Title
- In search of criminal responsibility : ideas, interest and institutions / Nicola Lacey.
- Publisher
- Corby : Oxford University Press 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and JusticeOxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-5138