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Criminal Responsibility

Author: Victor Tadros
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199225828
Published In: March 2007
Format: Paperback , 408 pages
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- Provides a broad ranging and systematically defended account of the central features of criminal responsibility
- Defends an account of criminal responsibility in the light of political theory
- Provides a thorough and novel investigation of both offence and defence conditions
- Thoroughly informed by philosophical writing in moral and political philosophy and philosophy of mind, whilst being accessible for legal academics without philosophical training
This book considers the proper nature and scope of criminal responsibility in the light of its institutional and political role. Tadros begins by providing an account of the foundations, both ethical and political, of criminal responsibility, and moves on to reconsider some of the central doctrines of criminal responsibility.

Part 1 examines the nature of criminal responsibility by employing a distinctive new conception of autonomy. Tadros explores the nature of autonomy, and asks what it means to respect autonomy. Building upon this consideration of autonomy, Tadros then explores the central conditions of responsibility. He provides the first systematic consideration of the relationship between criminal responsibility and liberal political theory, showing how the conditions of responsibility are articulated in, and restrained by, the institutional setting of the criminal law.

In Part 2, Tadros moves on to consider some of the central doctrines of criminal responsibility. He examines the proper nature and role of causation, intentions, and beliefs; asking whether these concepts should be understood as descriptive or normative. The book moves on to provide a systematic normative investigation of the nature and role of criminal omissions and criminal defences. Included are: a thorough account of the different ways in which mental disorders might ground defences, the nature of justification defences, the different kinds of excuse claim and the role that particular characteristics of the accused might have on the standards which the defendant must have met to escape criminal responsibility.

Readership: Scholars and advanced students of criminal law and moral and political philosophy
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: The Character of Criminal Responsibility
1. The Nature of Responsibility
2. Choice, Character and Capacity
3. Communication and the Character of Criminal Responsibility
4. The Structure of Criminal Responsibility
Part 2: Doctrines of Criminal Responsibility
5. Exemptions from Responsibility: Natural, Social and Political
6. The Nature of Causation
7. Criminal Omissions: Culpability, Responsibility and Liberty
8. The Significance of Intentions
9. The Ethics of Belief
10. Reality and Appearance in Justification Defences
11. The Characters of Excuse
12: Excusing the Mentally Disordered
13: Shifting Standards and Criminal Responsibility
Victor Tadros, Professor of Law, University of Warwick
"..outlines a philosophically rich account of the conditions under which someone might legitimately be held liable for committing a (serious crime), before bringing that account to bear on a variety of doctrines from the general part of the criminal law..the chapters are philosophically sophisticated, engagingly well-written, and frequently persuasive." - The Cambridge Law Journal

"Tadros offers a timely and refreshing account of the subject, and advances his own theory on the relationship between personal autonomy and criminal acts." - The British Journal of Criminology