Excusing Crime

Name: Excusing Crime
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ISBN: 9780198264828

ISBN-10: 0198264828

ISBN-13: 9780198264828

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jeremy Horder

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When should someone who may have intentionally or knowingly committed criminal wrongdoing be excused? Excusing Crime examines what excusing conditions are, and why familiar excuses, such as duress, are thought to fulfil those conditions. The 'classical' view of excuses sees them as rational defects (such as mistake) in the motive force behind an action, but contrasts them with 'denials of responsibility', such as insanity, where the rational defect in that motive force is attributable to a mental defect in the agent him- or herself. This classical view of excuses has a long heritage, and is enshrined in different forms in many of the world's criminal codes, both liberal and non-liberal;…

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List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.24" wide x 9.49" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Jeremy Horder is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Oxford, Porjes Foundation Fellow and Tutor in Law, Worcester College, Oxford, Chairman of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, 1998-2000 and currently Law Commissioner for England and Wales, 2005-.



Table of cases


Introduction



The domain of excuses: A theoretical overview



An anatomy of excuses



Which theory of excuses?



Liberalism, Partial excuses, and short-comers



Liberalism and the demands-of-conscience excuse



Excusing strict liability crime: a liberal account beyond the common law agenda


Bibliography


Index of authors


General Index