... nature and
criminality of the act; State v. Boan at 168 (unable to know that his actions were contrary to Kansas
law) ; and State v. Andrews at 747 (wrong means that which is prohibited by the law of ... constitutes
démence: ‘The question of whether such mental illness exists is not one for the law
but for psychiatry…the criminal law can only accept its conclusions.’
4
In a sense,
th...
... Smith’s Comment on R v R [1992] Criminal Law
Review 207, 208; Marianne Giles, ‘Judicial Law- Making in the Criminal Courts: the case of
marital rape’ [1992] Criminal Law Review 407. And despite the ... No Code! English Criminal Law 1894–1994’ in Martin Dockray (ed),
City University Centenary Lectures in Law (London, Blackstone Press, 1996). Judicial efforts
within the crimin...
... the general part of criminal law , in Duff, A (ed), Philosophy
and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique, 1998, Cambridge: CUP, p 205.
Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law
88
offences;
5
... recklessness, see
Ashworth, A, Principles of Criminal Law, 2nd edn, 1995, Oxford: Clarendon, pp 179–83.
Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law
90
For the idea that criminal law is...
...
STANDARDS IN CRIMINAL LAW
OECD Glossaries
Corruption
A GLOSSARY OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS IN CRIMINAL LAW
This Glossary explains the key elements required to classify corruption as a criminal ... anti-corruption laws.
Corruption A GLOSSARY OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS IN CRIMINAL LAWOECD Glossaries
1. OVERVIEW OF THE CONVENTIONS
CORRUPTION: A GLOSSARY OF INTERNATIONAL STANDAR...
... objects of criminal responsibility: should we be
criminally responsible only for actions in this sense? We are now focusing
on what might interest the criminal law. Whilst the criminal law is not
interested ... commit, and that the law defines as a criminal
45
See above, Ch 2 at n 25. Note that the reason is not ‘because it’s the criminal law ,
since we are not yet at the stag...
... theories of criminal law, see RA Duff (ed),
Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique (Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1998); AP Simester and GR Sullivan, Criminal Law: Theory ...
Philosophy of Criminal Law (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007).
27
A Ashworth and M Redmayne, The Criminal Process (Oxford, Oxford University Press,
3rd edn, 2005) ch 8....
... the case did ‘clarify the law in view of the history of
66
Bloy and Parry’s Principles of Criminal Law
67
The Mental Element – Mens Rea
confusion in this branch of the law . Therefore, the following ... been made on a number of occasions. In its 1989 draft
Criminal Code (A Criminal Code for England and Wales, Law Com 177, cl 18(b)),
the Law Commission offered the following defi...
...
BRIEFCASE on Criminal Law
94
Held D was guilty of violating the Financial Services Act. A mistake of
foreign law does not constitute a mistake of fact, but rather ‘would be a
mistake of English law ... not originally a crime into
a crime. There is not unlawfulness under the [Criminal Damage] Act 1971 in
burning a house. It does not become unlawful because there may be an inchoate
att...
... evidence
Sourcebook on Criminal Law
64
Sourcebook on Criminal Law
14 SELF-DEFENCE 575
The concept of reasonable force 575
Self-defence and necessity 603
Codification and law reform proposals 604
15 ... cause of her death?
CODIFICATION AND LAW REFORM PROPOSALS
The Criminal Code team’s draft Code of 1985 did contain a codification of the
law relating to criminal liability fo...
... o the man’s limbs.
Under the plea agreement, Bisengima-
na’s criminal liability stems not from his commission of any criminal acts, then,
but from his failure to prevent and punish those ... feasibility of criminal accountability.
But at what cost comes this accountability? Although the international commu-
nity has of late manifested a rm rhetorical commitment to the cause of...