Criminal Law Theory: Doctrines of the General Part (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)

Written by leading philosophers and lawyers from the United States and the United Kingdom, this collection of original essays offers new insights into the doctrines that make up the general part of the criminal law. It sheds theoretical light on the diversity and unity of the general part and advances our understanding of such key issues as criminalisation, omissions, voluntary actions, knowledge, belief, reckelssness, duress, self-defence, entrapment and officially-induced mistake of law. Doug Husak argues that doctrines of criminalization, such as the harm principle, rightly belong in the general part of the criminal law.