Professor R.A. Duff, Department of Philosophy, University of StirlingEducated at Oxford; after a year at University of Washington, Seattle, has taught at Stirling since 1970. British Academy Research Readership 1989-91; Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship 2002-05; FRSE 1996, FBA 2004Professor Stuart P. Green, Louis B Porterie Professor of Law, Louisiana State UniversityGraduate of Yale Law School; has taught at Louisiana State University since 1995. Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in U.K. 2002-03.

• 1. Introduction: Defining Crimes ; 2. The Classification of Crimes and the Special Part of the Criminal Law ; 3. Criminalizing Endangerment ; 4. Malum Prohibitum and Retributivism ; 5. The Possession Paradigm: The Special Part and the Police Power Model of the Criminal Process ; 6. The Distinctiveness of Domestic Violence: a Freedom Based Account ; 7. What's Wrong with Bribery ; 8. On the Nature and Rationale of Property Offences ; 9. Is Strict Liability Rape Defensible? ; 10. Merger and Felony Murder

This book..constitutes a welcome and timely contribution to what is undoubtedly a growing interest in this field

Professor R.A. Duff, Department of Philosophy, University of StirlingEducated at Oxford; after a year at University of Washington, Seattle, has taught at Stirling since 1970. British Academy Research Readership 1989-91; Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship 2002-05; FRSE 1996, FBA 2004Professor Stuart P. Green, Louis B Porterie Professor of Law, Louisiana State UniversityGraduate of Yale Law School; has taught at Louisiana State University since 1995. Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in U.K. 2002-03.

• 1. Introduction: Defining Crimes ; 2. The Classification of Crimes and the Special Part of the Criminal Law ; 3. Criminalizing Endangerment ; 4. Malum Prohibitum and Retributivism ; 5. The Possession Paradigm: The Special Part and the Police Power Model of the Criminal Process ; 6. The Distinctiveness of Domestic Violence: a Freedom Based Account ; 7. What's Wrong with Bribery ; 8. On the Nature and Rationale of Property Offences ; 9. Is Strict Liability Rape Defensible? ; 10. Merger and Felony Murder

This book..constitutes a welcome and timely contribution to what is undoubtedly a growing interest in this field

Professor R.A. Duff, Department of Philosophy, University of StirlingEducated at Oxford; after a year at University of Washington, Seattle, has taught at Stirling since 1970. British Academy Research Readership 1989-91; Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship 2002-05; FRSE 1996, FBA 2004Professor Stuart P. Green, Louis B Porterie Professor of Law, Louisiana State UniversityGraduate of Yale Law School; has taught at Louisiana State University since 1995. Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in U.K. 2002-03.

• 1. Introduction: Defining Crimes ; 2. The Classification of Crimes and the Special Part of the Criminal Law ; 3. Criminalizing Endangerment ; 4. Malum Prohibitum and Retributivism ; 5. The Possession Paradigm: The Special Part and the Police Power Model of the Criminal Process ; 6. The Distinctiveness of Domestic Violence: a Freedom Based Account ; 7. What's Wrong with Bribery ; 8. On the Nature and Rationale of Property Offences ; 9. Is Strict Liability Rape Defensible? ; 10. Merger and Felony Murder

This book..constitutes a welcome and timely contribution to what is undoubtedly a growing interest in this field