Key Ideas in Criminal Law

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This book shows how the mainstream doctrines of substantive criminal law map onto certain key underlying (and overlapping) principles. These principles are: legitimate criminalisation, accountability, culpability, moral responsibility and wrongdoing.

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J R Edwards is Associate Professor of Law, Tutorial Fellow of Worcester College, and Lecturer at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK. A P Simester is Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Centre for Legal Theory at the National University of Singapore.