Description: Definition In The Criminal Law, Hardcover by Halpin, Andrew, ISBN 1841130710, ISBN-13 9781841130712, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In recent years, a number of key terms of the criminal law have seemed to defy definition. Skepticism over the possibility of defining basic concepts and identifying general principles has been voiced by both judges and academic commentators. This raises broad issues of theoretical interest, but also touches on such practical concerns as the efforts made by the Law Commission to reform the law as well as wider proposals for the codification of criminal law. Furthermore, the Human Rights Act incorporates a requirement of legality under Article 7 of the ECHR, whose scope is clearly connected to our understanding of how criminal offenses are defined. This book undertakes an investigation of the role and scope of definition within the criminal law, set within a wider examination of the nature of legal materials and the diversity of perspectives on law. It offers a fascinating account of how the rules and principles found within legal materials provide opportunities for responding to, rather than merely following, the law. In the light of this account, th takes issue with some of the established views on the roles of judges and academics and, in a series of case studies concerning the definition of theft and changes to the definition of recklessness recently introduced by the House of Lords in R V G, explores the intimate connection between the use of legal materials and the practice of definition. More specific objectives of th involve providing a more rigorous assessment of the serious challenge made by a "critical" perspective on the criminal law; challenging the conventional intellectual apparatus of the criminal law; demonstrating how general theoretical insights on the process of definition can assist with the practical problems of defining criminal offenses; clarifying the uses of definition in the work of the judiciary and law reformers; and determining realistic expectations for the principle of legality within the criminal law.
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Book Title: Definition In The Criminal Law
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: Definition in the Criminal Law
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Criminal Law / General
Publication Year: 2004
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Andrew Halpin
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Law
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
