
By Antony Duff
ISBN-10: 1841137537
ISBN-13: 9781841137537
This long-awaited publication, by means of the distinguished thinker Antony Duff, deals a brand new standpoint at the constructions of felony legislation and legal legal responsibility. The book's start line is a contrast among accountability (understood as answerability) and legal responsibility, and a belief of accountability as relational and practice-based. This specialize in accountability, as an issue of being answerable to people who have the status to name one to account, throws new gentle on various questions in legal legislation idea: at the query of criminalization, that may now be forged because the query of what we must always need to resolution for, and to whom, less than the specter of felony conviction and punishment; on questions about the felony trial, as a strategy during which defendants are referred to as to reply to, and concerning the stipulations (bars to trial) given which an ordeal will be illegitimate; on questions on the constitution of offenses, the excellence among offenses and defenses, and the phenomena of strict legal responsibility and strict accountability; and on questions about the buildings of felony defenses. the web result's now not a thought of felony legislations, however it is an account of the constitution of felony legislations as an establishment in which a liberal polity defines a realm of public wrongdoing, and calls to account those that perpetrate (or are accused of perpetrating) such wrongs. Answering for Crime can be crucial examining for legal legislations theorists.