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Fundamentals of Criminal Law: Responsibility, Culpability, and Wrongdoing
This book explores the philosophical underpinnings of the law's major doctrines concerning actus reus, mens rea, and defences, showing that they are not always driven by culpability but are grounded also in principles of moral responsibility, ascriptive responsibility, and wrongdoing.
| Author(s) | By A P Simester (Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice, Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice, National University of Singapore). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 544 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 4 Feb 2021 |
| Availability | Available |
This book explores the philosophical underpinnings of the law's major doctrines concerning actus reus, mens rea, and defences, showing that they are not always driven by culpability but are grounded also in principles of moral responsibility, ascriptive responsibility, and wrongdoing.
Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Part I: Groundwork 1: Crime, Responsibility, Culpability, and Wrongdoing 2: Structure and Nomenclature 3: Five Functions, and Two Kinds, of Mens Rea Part II: Responsibility 4: Moral and Ascriptive Responsibil
After graduating from Auckland and Oxford, Andrew Simester started his academic career at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He moved to the National University of Singapore in 2006 and, since 2015, concurrently holds the Edmund-Davies Chair in Crimin
