| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 333 pages) |
| Contents |
Ashworth on principles -- Principles, policies, and politics of criminal law -- Criminal attempt, the rule of law, and accountability in criminal law -- Presuming innocence -- Fair labelling and social solidarity -- Distraction and negligence -- On justifications and excuses -- Years of provocation, followed by a loss of control -- Positive obligations and criminal justice: duties to protect or coerce? -- Exploring entrapment -- Excluding evidence as protecting constitutional or human rights? -- Community sanctions and European human rights law -- A system of international criminal justice for human rights violations: what is the general justification for its existence? -- Equality before the law and equal impact of sanctions: doing justice to differences in wealth and employment status -- Sentencing women: toward gender equality -- Proportionate sentencing and the rule of law -- Concurrent and consecutive sentences revisited -- "Wrongful acquittals and "unduly lenient" sentences: misconceived problems that provoke unjust solutions |
| Summary |
Celebrating one of the leading lawyers of the common law, Andrew Ashworth, the essays in this volume address fundamental questions of principle and value in criminal law, criminal process, human rights, sentencing, and punishment. This is a contribution to contemporary debates about criminalisation and punishment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ashworth, Andrew.
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| SUBJECT |
Ashworth, Andrew fast |
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Criminal law -- Great Britain
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Criminal law
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Strafrecht.
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Strafprocesrecht.
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Criminal law.
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International criminal justice.
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Administration of justice.
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Human rights.
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Criminal enforcement.
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Principles.
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Festschriften.
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Great Britain
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Festschriften
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Feestbundels (vorm)
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Zedner, Lucia.
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Roberts, Julian V.
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| ISBN |
9780191639494 |
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0191639494 |
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9780191742293 |
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0191742295 |
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9781283658171 |
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1283658178 |
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