Criminal Law Theory

Dr Stephen Shute is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Birmingham. He has also taught at the University of Oxford, where he was a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Corpus Christie CollegeA.P.Simester is Professor of Legal Philosphy at the University of Nottingham

• GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE ; PREFACE ; THE CONTRIBUTERS ; 1. On the General Part in Criminal Law ; 2. Limitations on Criminalization and the General Part of Criminal Law ; 3. Rule Violations and Wrongdoings ; 4. The Modern General Part: Three Illusions ; 5. Making Criminal Law Known ; 6. Criminal Liability for Omissions - An Inventory of Issues ; 7. Involuntary Crimes, Voluntarily Committed ; 8. Knowledge and Belief in the Criminal Law ; 9. Knowledge, Belief and Culpability ; 10. Recklessness and the Duty to Take Care ; 11. Battered Women Who Kill Their Sleeping Tormentors: Reflections on Maintaining Respect for Human Life While Killing Moral Monsters ; 12. Killing the Passive Abuser: A Theoretical Defence ; 13. Testing Fidelity to Legal Values: Official Involvement and Criminal Justice ; INDEX

The essays are philosophically sophisticated and tightly argued.