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Crime, reason and history : a critical introduction to criminal law / Alan Norrie.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Law in contextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014Edition: Third editionDescription: xxxiv, 415 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521516464 (hardback)
  • 0521516463 (hardback)
  • 9780521731683 (paperback)
  • 0521731682 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 345.41 23
LOC classification:
  • KD7850 .N67 2014
Other classification:
  • LAW026000
Contents:
Contradiction, critique and criminal law -- The historical context of criminal doctrine -- Motive and intention -- Recklessness -- Strict and corporate liability -- Acts and omissions -- Causation -- Necessity and duress -- Insanity and diminished responsibility -- Self-defence -- Loss of control -- Sentencing -- Conclusion.
Summary: "It is eight years since the first edition of this book was published. Where relevant, I have sought to update the argument with new case and statute law. I have also developed the analysis, especially in Chapter 3, where a closer link between the two main sections, on motive and intention and indirect intention, is established"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books Books Institute of Legal Practice and Development Library - Nyanza Branch General Stacks 345.41 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 006444N

Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-394) and index.

Contradiction, critique and criminal law -- The historical context of criminal doctrine -- Motive and intention -- Recklessness -- Strict and corporate liability -- Acts and omissions -- Causation -- Necessity and duress -- Insanity and diminished responsibility -- Self-defence -- Loss of control -- Sentencing -- Conclusion.

"It is eight years since the first edition of this book was published. Where relevant, I have sought to update the argument with new case and statute law. I have also developed the analysis, especially in Chapter 3, where a closer link between the two main sections, on motive and intention and indirect intention, is established"-- Provided by publisher.

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