Self, Others and the State

Relations of Criminal Responsibility

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvArlie Loughnan,Arlie (University of Sydney) Loughnan

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Criminal responsibility is now central to criminal law, but it is in need of re-examination. In the context of Australian criminal laws, Self, Others and the State reassesses the general assumptions made about the rise to prominence of criminal responsibility in the period since around the turn of the twentieth century. It reconsiders the role of criminal responsibility in criminal law, arguing that criminal responsibility is significant because it organises key sets of relations - between self, others and the state - as relations of responsibility. Detailed studies of decisive moments and developments since the turn of the twentieth century, and original explorations of relations of responsibility, expose the complexity and dynamism of criminal responsibility and reveal that it is the means by which matters of subjectivity, relationality and power make themselves felt in the criminal law.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-12
Mått178 x 252 x 21 mm
Vikt690 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLaw in Context
Antal sidor352
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108497602

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Straffrätt: process och brott inom Juridik
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Introduction; Part I. Rethinking Criminal Responsibility: 1. Space and time in criminal responsibility; 2. The significance of criminal responsibility; Part II. Responsibility in Criminal Law: 3. Modernisation of form and process: criminal responsibility at the turn of the twentieth century; 4. The 'birth' of Australian criminal law: the role of criminal responsibility in the mid-century; 5. Peak responsibility?: Codifying criminal responsibility in the late twentieth century; Part III. Criminal Responsibility in Relation: 6. Self; 7. Others; 8. State; Conclusion.

'This is a new and exciting addition to the burgeoning critical literature on criminal responsibility. Loughnan's focus is on the ways that criminal responsibility is linked to, and organises, wider networks of social responsibilities. This novel approach allows us to see how the narrow question of criminal liability is underpinned and shaped by broader social and institutional framings of responsibilities, giving novel and important insights into what Loughnan calls the 'social life' of the criminal law. These new theoretical insights are developed through an account of the development of criminal responsibility in twentieth-century Australia. This is an important new book and should be essential reading for anyone interested in the history and theory of the criminal law.' Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow