Criminal Law / William Wilson

Front Cover --
Half Title Page --
Title Page --
Copyright Page --
Contents in brief --
Contents --
Preface --
Publisher's acknowledgements --
Table of cases --
Table of statutes --
Table of statutory instruments --
Table of United States legislation --
Table of EU/International Legislation --
Part I Introduction --
1 Understanding criminal law --
1.1 Introduction --
1.2 What is the criminal law? --
1.3 What are the concerns of the criminal law? --
A The support of public interests in --
B The support of private interests in --
1.4 How are the criminal law's purposes discharged? A Law enforcement --
B Bringing proceedings --
C Trial --
1 Proving guilt --
2 Burdens of proof: evidential burden and burden of persuasion --
3 The presumption of innocence --
4 Judge and jury --
1.5 Where do the rules of criminal law come from? --
A Common law --
1 Historical perspective --
2 The modern perspective --
B Statute law --
1 Interrelationship of statute and common law --
2 The principle of legality --
3 Interpreting criminal statutes --
4 Fair warning and social protection --
C European Union law --
D The European Convention on Human Rights --
1 The Human Rights Act 1998 1.6 Logic and rationality in the criminal law --
1.7 Codification --
1.8 The draft Criminal Code --
2 Decisions to criminalise --
2.1 Introduction --
2.2 Principles and ideas informing decisions to criminalise --
A Autonomy --
1 The harm principle --
2 What is harm? --
3 The harm principle: its influence on criminal doctrine --
4 Alternative notions of autonomy --
B Harm prevention and other welfare values --
1 Enforcing morality --
2 Liberal objections to the enforcement of morality --
3 Is there a meaningful difference between legislating to enforce morality and legislating to prevent harm? 4 Principled approaches to the enforcement of morals --
C Practical criteria underpinning decisions to criminalise: thresholds of seriousness --
1 Grading wrongs --
2 Remote harms and non-victimising crimes --
3 Practical limiting criteria --
3 Punishment --
3.1 Introduction --
3.2 Punishment in the liberal state --
3.3 Theories of punishment --
A Retributive theories --
1 In general --
2 Forms of retributive theory --
3 Punishment as an expression of censure --
B Utilitarianism --
1 In general --
2 Forms of utilitarian penal theory --
3 Criticisms --
C Mixed theories --
1 Hart's solution 2 Criticisms of Hart --
3.4 Rationality and politics in sentencing --
3.5 Conclusion --
Part II General principles of criminal liability --
4 Actus reus --
4.1 Introduction --
4.2 Elements of liability --
4.3 Interrelationship of actus reus, mens rea and defences --
4.4 The act requirement --
4.5 Exceptions to the act requirement --
A Situational liability --
B Possession offences --
C Omissions --
1 Is it appropriate to criminalise omissions? --
D Omission and crimes of commission --
1 Acts and omissions: what's the difference? --
2 Omissions: the common law approach

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