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What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable of punishment under the criminal law? Modern lawyers will quickly and easily point to the criminal law's requirement of concurrent actus reus and mens rea, doctrines of the criminal law which ensure that someone will only be found...

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Main Author: Lacey, Nicola
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press 2016
Edition:First edition
Series:Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice
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Summary:What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable of punishment under the criminal law? Modern lawyers will quickly and easily point to the criminal law's requirement of concurrent actus reus and mens rea, doctrines of the criminal law which ensure that someone will only be found criminally responsible if they have committed criminal conduct while possessing capacities of understanding, awareness, and self-control at the time of offense. Any notion of criminal responsibility based on the character of the offender, meaning an implication of criminality based on reputation or the assumed disposition of the person, would seem to today's criminal lawyer a relic of the 18th Century. In this volume, Nicola Lacey demonstrates that the practice of character-based patterns of attribution was not laid to rest in 18th Century criminal law, but is alive and well in contemporary English criminal responsibility-attribution
Physical Description:xviii, 236 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index
ISBN:9780199248209 (hbk.)
0199248206
9780199248216 (pbk.)
0199248214 (pbk.)