Research Catalog

Title

Principles and values in criminal law and criminal justice : essays in honour of Andrew Ashworth / edited by Lucia Zedner and Julian V. Roberts.

Publication

Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Ashworth, Andrew
• Zedner, Lucia.
• Roberts, Julian V.

Description

xxx, 333 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Celebrating one of the leading lawyers of the common law, Andrew Ashworth, the essays in this volume address fundamental questions of principle and value in criminal law, criminal process, human rights, sentencing, and punishment. This is a contribution to contemporary debates about criminalisation and punishment.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Alternative Title

• Essays in honour of Andrew Ashworth
• Essays in honor of Andrew Ashworth

Subject

• Ashworth, Andrew
• Criminal law > Great Britain
• Criminal justice, Administration of > Great Britain
• Criminal law > Philosophy
• Human rights
• Punishment

Genre/Form

Festschriften

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ashworth on principles / John Gardner -- Principles, policies, and politics of criminal law / Nicola Lacey -- Criminal attempt, the rule of law, and accountability in criminal law / Jeremy Horder -- Presuming innocence / R.A. Duff -- Fair labelling and social solidarity / Victor Tadros -- Distraction and negligence / Douglas Husak -- On justifications and excuses / Andrew Simester -- Years of provocation, followed by a loss of control / Barry Mitchell -- Positive obligations and criminal justice : duties to protect or coerce? / Liora Lazarus -- Exploring entrapment / Mike Redmayne -- Excluding evidence as protecting constitutional or human rights? / Paul Roberts -- Community sanctions and European human rights law / Dirk van Zyl Smit -- A system of international criminal justice for human rights violations : what is the general justification for its existence? / Andreas von Hirsch and Vivian Schorscher -- Equality before the law and equal impact of sanctions : doing justice to differences in wealth and employment status / Kate Warner -- Sentencing women : towards gender equality / Elaine Player -- Proportionate sentencing and the rule of law / Malcolm Thorburn -- Concurrent and consecutive sentences revisited / Martin Wasik -- 'Wrongful' acquittals and 'unduly lenient' sentences : misconceived problems that provoke unjust solutions / Michael Tonry.

ISBN

• 9780199696796 (cloth)
• 0199696799 (cloth)

LCCN

^^2012471360

OCLC

• 792885850
• SCSB-10089477

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library