responsibility and liability in the criminal law /
R.A. Duff.
Portland, Or. :
Hart,
2007.
1 online resource (xx, 322 pages).
Legal theory today
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-316) and index.
Half title page; Title page; Title verso; Acknowledgements; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; Introduction; I. The 'General Part' and the 'Special Part'; II. A Normative Theory of Criminal Law?; III. Answering for Crime; 1 Responsibility and Liability; 1.1. Responsibility and Liability; 1.2. Responsibility as Relational; 1.3. Prospective and Retrospective Responsibilities; 2 Criminally Responsible as What, to Whom?; 2.1. Who Can Be Responsible?; 2.2. As What Are We Criminally Responsible?; 3. Civic Criminal Responsibility; 3 Responsible For What?
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Suitable for criminal law theorists, this work offers a fresh perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability. Its starting point is a distinction between responsibility (understood as answerability) and liability, and a conception of responsibility as relational and practice-based.