LEADER 03910nam 22006491c 450 001 9910451439303321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-5930-4 010 $a1-280-80049-6 010 $a9786610800490 010 $a1-84731-133-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472559302 035 $a(CKB)1000000000338612 035 $a(EBL)270682 035 $a(OCoLC)476004710 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000119329 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12034619 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119329 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10057345 035 $a(PQKB)10604899 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1772354 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC270682 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1772354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10276172 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL80049 035 $a(OCoLC)191804627 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09256129 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL270682 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000338612 100 $a20140929d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCentral issues in criminal theory $fWilliam Wilson 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford $aPortland, Oregon $cHart Publishing $d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (390 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84113-062-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [363]-375) and index 327 $a1 Criminalising Wrongdoing -- 2 Punishing Wrongdoing -- 3 Criminal Wrongdoing: Acts and Omissions -- 4 Criminalising Wrongdoing: Voluntariness -- 5 Intention, Motives and Desert -- 6 Causing Harm -- 7 Attributing Liability to Secondary Parties -- 8 Criminal Attempts -- 9 Packaging Criminal Liability -- 10 Criminal Defences: Setting Limits to Justifications -- 11 Excusing Wrongdoing: Capacity and Virtue 330 8 $aCoercive rules and their implementation are,in liberal democratic societies at least, subject to ethical constraints. The state's moral authority requires these constraints to be both cogent and effectively realised in doctrine. In short, the enterprise of subjecting individuals to coercive rules must be consistent with the delivery of criminal justice. Contemporary criminal theory is much exercised by the apparent contradictions and ambiguities characterising criminal law doctrine. Is this an inevitable part of the territory leading us to question the very possibility of criminal law delivering justice? Or, as the author prefers, is criminal justice an achievement in which one of the tasks of criminal theory is to set goals and identify deficiencies in a constant effort to improve the form and content of rules and procedures? Informed by this premise the book explores some of the key questions in criminal theory, addressing first the ethics of criminalisation and punishment. It continues with an examination of the structure of criminal liability with its emphasis on separating consideration of the objective conditions of wrongdoing from the features which make a person responsible for it. Finally it examines attempts and accessoryship with a view to exploring the doctrinal tensions which may arise when competing justifications for criminalisation and punishment collide. The book gives an account of the present state of criminal theory in an accessible style which will welcomed by those embarking upon courses in advanced criminal law and criminal theory, teachers, and more generally by practitioners and scholars 606 $aCriminal law$xPhilosophy 606 $2Criminal law & procedure 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCriminal law$xPhilosophy. 676 $a345/.001 700 $aWilson$b William$f1953-$01041090 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451439303321 996 $aCentral issues in criminal theory$92464391 997 $aUNINA