Nicola Lacey: 2 books
In Search of Criminal Responsibility
Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable to 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...
by Nicola Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Nicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishments in context of other political questions, such as the nature of political obligation and the function and scope of criminal law. Arguing that no convincing...