Causation in Criminal Law

Alan Reed is Professor of Law and Private International Law and leads research in the Faculty of Business and Law at Northumbria University, UK.Michael Bohlander holds the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy at Durham University, UK.Bethany Simpson is Lecturer in Criminal Law at Newcastle University, UK.Verity Adams is Barrister at Trinity Chambers in Newcastle, UK.

• List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. Novus Actus Interveniens and the Autonomy Principle: Breaking the Link, Jonathan Herring; 2.Variations on a Theme of Causation: Blameworthiness, Voluntarism and Consent in Intimate Partner Homicide, Susan S. M. Edwards; 3.Causality, Culpability and Criminalising Failures to Rescue, Gavin Dingwall, Alisdair A. Gillespie; 4.Causing Death by the Unlawful Supply of Drugs: A Remodelling of Criminal Causation Using Tortious Precepts, Mark James, Alan Reed; 5.Causation in Tort and Criminal Law: Is it Truly a Distinction Without a Difference?, Jesse Elvin, Claire de Than; 6.Criminal Causation, Culpability, Coherence and Common Sense, John E. Stannard; 7.Causation and Criminal Responsibility; Grant Firkins; 8.Germany, Kai Ambos, Stefanie Bock; 9. Australia, Mirko Bagaric; 10.United States of America, Vera Bergelson; 11.Russia, Gennady Esakov; 12.Islam, Mohammad Hedayati-Kakhki; 13. Africa, Gerhard Kemp; 14.China, Andra le Roux-Kemp.