Bücher der Reihe Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice

In the 21st century the legal process still fails to provide an adequate response to sexual violation and abuse. This text examines some of the difficulties which this crime presents and analyses in detail how the legal system could and should be addressing them.

This book analyses the background to the demands to use criminal law sanctions against corporations, including the rise in the demand for corporate manslaughter prosecutions and the difficulties in attributing blame to an artificial body.

Preventive Justice looks at the use of coercive preventive measures by the state, both within and beyond criminal law. Examining preventive laws, measures, and institutions in and outside the criminal law, it explores the justifications given for using coercion to protect the public from harm.

A philosophical inquiry into the foundations of provocation as a defence to murder, this book draws on historical and philosophical sources not normally linked with criminal law. It seeks to explain why and when action in anger is thought morally less blameworthy than premeditated action.

When should someone who may have intentionally or knowingly committed criminal wrongdoing be excused? This book examines what excusing conditions are, and why familiar excuses, such as duress, are thought to fulfil those conditions.

This is the first book in recent years to reconsider the shape and details of the English law of homicide, a topic avoided by governments in their plans for law reform. It discusses how the law should define murder, how it should respond to provoked killings, how it should deal with mentally abnormal killers, etc.

A number of jurisdictions, including England and Wales, require that sentences be "proportionate" to the severity of the crime. This treatise, written by the leading architect of "just deserts" sentencing theory, describes how sentences may be scaled proportionately to the gravity of the crime.

This is the first book to take a comprehensive look at white collar criminal offenses from the perspective of moral and legal theory, focusing on the way in which key white-collar crimes such as fraud, perjury, bribery, extortion, insider trading, and tax evasion are shaped and informed by a range of familiar moral norms.

This book provides a systematic, philosophically informed account of criminal responsibility. It begins by providing a general account of criminal responsibility based on the relationship between the action that the defendent has performed and their character. It then moves on to reconsider some of the central doctrines of criminal responsibility in the light of that account.