Criminal Law.

By: Wilson, WilliamMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Welwyn Garden City : Pearson Education UK, 2014Copyright date: �2014Edition: 5th edDescription: 1 online resource (689 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781292001982Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Criminal LawDDC classification: 345.42 LOC classification: KD7888.W55 2014Online resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Table of cases -- Table of statutes -- Table of statutory instruments -- Table of United States legislation -- Table of international conventions -- Abbreviations -- 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 -- B The support of private interests -- 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 -- 3 Circumstances giving rise to a duty to act: duty situations -- 4 Circumstances governing the scope of the duty -- 5 Omissions: an alternative approach -- Summary -- 5 Causation -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 CAUSATION IN CRIME AND TORT -- 5.3 CAUSATION AND BLAMEWORTHINESS -- 5.4 THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING CAUSAL RESPONSIBILITY -- 5.5 CAUSATION: THE LEGAL POSITION -- A Factual cause -- 1 Omissions as factual causes -- 2 Causes and conditions contrasted -- 3 Particular instances of factual causation -- B Legal cause -- 1 The general framework for imputing cause -- 5.6 PARTICULAR EXAMPLES OF CAUSAL SEQUENCES GIVING RISE TO CAUSATION PROBLEMS -- A Subsisting conditions -- 1 Medical conditions: the thin skull principle -- 2 Other subsisting conditions -- B Intervening acts and events -- 1 Victim's conduct contributing to the occurrence or extent of injury.
2 Third party's act contributing to the occurrence or extent of injury -- 3 Intervening cause supersedes defendant's act -- 5.7 CAUSATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE -- Summary -- 6 Mens rea -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 CHOICE AND CHARACTER: TWO MODELS OF RESPONSIBILITY -- 6.3 SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE FAULT -- 6.4 MENS REA AND THE STRUCTURE OF CRIME -- 6.5 THE MENS REA WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS -- 6.6 INTENTION -- A Everyday usage and its relevance to criminal responsibility -- 1 Intention and risk-taking -- 2 Summary -- B Intention in the criminal law: intention, purpose and motive -- C The meaning of intention in the criminal law -- 1 The effect of Woollin -- D Conclusion -- 6.7 RECKLESSNESS -- A Recklessness in the criminal law -- 1 The subjectivist stance -- 2 Caldwell recklessness -- 3 The retreat from Caldwell -- B Conclusion: recklessness and the politics of social control -- 6.8 KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF -- A What counts as knowledge? -- B How extensive does knowledge have to be? -- 6.9 NEGLIGENCE -- A Liability for risk-taking: recklessness and negligence compared -- B Negligence in the criminal law -- C The justification for punishing negligence -- 1 Negligence and capacity -- Summary -- 7 Strict liability -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 STRICT LIABILITY OFFENCES -- A Public welfare offences -- B Stigmatic offences -- 7.3 JUSTIFYING STRICT LIABILITY OFFENCES -- 7.4 THE PRESUMPTION OF MENS REA -- 7.5 REBUTTING THE PRESUMPTION -- A The statutory context -- B The social context -- 1 Real crime and public welfare crime: a false dichotomy? -- C Penal efficacy -- 7.6 DEFENCES -- 7.7 EVALUATION -- 7.8 CORPORATE AND VICARIOUS LIABILITY -- 7.9 THE DELEGATION PRINCIPLE -- 7.10 THE SCOPE OF VICARIOUS LIABILITY -- 7.11 CORPORATE LIABILITY -- 7.12 THE SCOPE OF CORPORATE LIABILITY -- 7.13 PROBLEMS OF ATTRIBUTION -- 7.14 WHY PUNISH COMPANIES? -- Summary.
8 Relationship between actus reus and mens rea -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- A Temporal coincidence -- 1 Qualifications to the requirement of temporal coincidence -- B Definitional concurrence -- 1 Qualifications to the requirement of definitional concurrence -- 8.2 MISTAKE -- Summary -- 9 Defences (1) -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION -- 9.2 CATEGORISING DEFENCES -- 9.3 A RATIONALE TO DEFENCES -- A Excuses -- B Justificatory defences -- 1 The point of distinguishing between justification and excuse -- 2 Moral forfeiture -- 3 Defence of autonomy -- 4 Balancing interests -- 9.4 A COMMON DEFENCE TEMPLATE -- 9.5 EXCUSES -- 9.6 INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOUR: GENERAL -- 9.7 INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOUR (I): PHYSICAL INCAPACITY -- A Prior fault -- 9.8 INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOUR (II): AUTOMATISM -- A Automatism and crimes of mens rea -- B Automatism, negligence and strict liability -- C Conditions of automatism -- D Prior fault: self-induced automatism -- 9.9 INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOUR (III): INSANITY -- A The legal test of insanity -- 1 Defects of cognition -- 2 Defects of reason -- 3 Disease of the mind -- B Involuntary behaviour: evaluation -- 9.10 MISTAKE -- A Definitional mistakes -- B Mistake as to defences -- 9.11 INTOXICATION -- A Intoxication: its effect on criminal liability -- B Distinguishing voluntary and involuntary intoxication -- C Voluntary intoxication -- 1 Crimes of specific intent identified -- 2 The rationale for restricting the exculpatory scope of voluntary intoxication -- D Intoxicated mistakes -- 1 Intoxication and true defences -- 2 Intoxication and statutory defences -- 3 Intoxication and mental disorder -- E Conclusion -- Summary -- 10 Defences (2): affirmative defences -- 10.1 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEFENCES -- 10.2 COMPULSION: INTRODUCTION -- 10.3 THE RATIONALE FOR EXCUSING ON GROUNDS OF COMPULSION -- 10.4 COMPULSION (I): DURESS BY THREATS - THE LEGAL POSITION.
A What threats are required? -- B Threats against third parties -- C A part subjective and part objective test -- 1 The first question -- 2 The second question -- D Immediacy of the threat -- E Prior fault -- 1 Intoxication -- 2 Criminal organisations -- F Scope of the defence -- 10.5 COMPULSION (II): DURESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES -- 10.6 NECESSITY -- A The scope of necessity -- B Necessity as an excuse - duress of circumstances -- C Necessity as justification -- 1 Necessity operating to defeat interests -- D Necessity/duress of circumstances and murder -- 1 Necessary action consented to and in the public interest -- 2 Double effects and the preservation of life -- 10.7 USE OF FORCE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEFENCE -- 10.8 PURPOSES FOR WHICH REASONABLE FORCE MAY BE USED -- A Rules governing the use of force -- 1 The use of force must be necessary -- 2 The degree of force used must be proportionate -- 3 Proportionate from whose point of view? -- 4 What counts as force? -- 5 What offences may be committed for defensive purposes? -- 6 Justifying killing -- 10.9 JUSTIFICATORY DEFENCES: CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Summary -- Part III Offences against the person -- 11 Non-fatal offences -- 11.1 INTRODUCTION -- 11.2 OFFENCES PROTECTING PHYSICAL INTEGRITY -- A Wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent -- 1 Actus reus -- 2 Mens rea -- B Malicious wounding/infliction of grievous bodily harm -- 1 Actus reus -- 2 Mens rea -- C Aggravated assaults -- D Assault occasioning actual bodily harm -- 1 Actus reus -- 2 Mens rea -- E Other offences against the person -- 11.3 OFFENCES PROTECTING PERSONAL AUTONOMY -- A Common assault -- 1 Assault -- 2 Battery -- 11.4 DEFENCES TO OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON -- A Consent -- 1 The reality of consent -- 2 Capacity to give consent -- 3 What can be consented to? -- 4 Consent and the Law Commission -- B Necessity.
C Lawful chastisement.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Table of cases -- Table of statutes -- Table of statutory instruments -- Table of United States legislation -- Table of international conventions -- Abbreviations -- 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 -- B The support of private interests -- 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 -- 3 Circumstances giving rise to a duty to act: duty situations -- 4 Circumstances governing the scope of the duty -- 5 Omissions: an alternative approach -- Summary -- 5 Causation -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 CAUSATION IN CRIME AND TORT -- 5.3 CAUSATION AND BLAMEWORTHINESS -- 5.4 THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING CAUSAL RESPONSIBILITY -- 5.5 CAUSATION: THE LEGAL POSITION -- A Factual cause -- 1 Omissions as factual causes -- 2 Causes and conditions contrasted -- 3 Particular instances of factual causation -- B Legal cause -- 1 The general framework for imputing cause -- 5.6 PARTICULAR EXAMPLES OF CAUSAL SEQUENCES GIVING RISE TO CAUSATION PROBLEMS -- A Subsisting conditions -- 1 Medical conditions: the thin skull principle -- 2 Other subsisting conditions -- B Intervening acts and events -- 1 Victim's conduct contributing to the occurrence or extent of injury.

2 Third party's act contributing to the occurrence or extent of injury -- 3 Intervening cause supersedes defendant's act -- 5.7 CAUSATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE -- Summary -- 6 Mens rea -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 CHOICE AND CHARACTER: TWO MODELS OF RESPONSIBILITY -- 6.3 SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE FAULT -- 6.4 MENS REA AND THE STRUCTURE OF CRIME -- 6.5 THE MENS REA WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS -- 6.6 INTENTION -- A Everyday usage and its relevance to criminal responsibility -- 1 Intention and risk-taking -- 2 Summary -- B Intention in the criminal law: intention, purpose and motive -- C The meaning of intention in the criminal law -- 1 The effect of Woollin -- D Conclusion -- 6.7 RECKLESSNESS -- A Recklessness in the criminal law -- 1 The subjectivist stance -- 2 Caldwell recklessness -- 3 The retreat from Caldwell -- B Conclusion: recklessness and the politics of social control -- 6.8 KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF -- A What counts as knowledge? -- B How extensive does knowledge have to be? -- 6.9 NEGLIGENCE -- A Liability for risk-taking: recklessness and negligence compared -- B Negligence in the criminal law -- C The justification for punishing negligence -- 1 Negligence and capacity -- Summary -- 7 Strict liability -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 STRICT LIABILITY OFFENCES -- A Public welfare offences -- B Stigmatic offences -- 7.3 JUSTIFYING STRICT LIABILITY OFFENCES -- 7.4 THE PRESUMPTION OF MENS REA -- 7.5 REBUTTING THE PRESUMPTION -- A The statutory context -- B The social context -- 1 Real crime and public welfare crime: a false dichotomy? -- C Penal efficacy -- 7.6 DEFENCES -- 7.7 EVALUATION -- 7.8 CORPORATE AND VICARIOUS LIABILITY -- 7.9 THE DELEGATION PRINCIPLE -- 7.10 THE SCOPE OF VICARIOUS LIABILITY -- 7.11 CORPORATE LIABILITY -- 7.12 THE SCOPE OF CORPORATE LIABILITY -- 7.13 PROBLEMS OF ATTRIBUTION -- 7.14 WHY PUNISH COMPANIES? -- Summary.

8 Relationship between actus reus and mens rea -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- A Temporal coincidence -- 1 Qualifications to the requirement of temporal coincidence -- B Definitional concurrence -- 1 Qualifications to the requirement of definitional concurrence -- 8.2 MISTAKE -- Summary -- 9 Defences (1) -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION -- 9.2 CATEGORISING DEFENCES -- 9.3 A RATIONALE TO DEFENCES -- A Excuses -- B Justificatory defences -- 1 The point of distinguishing between justification and excuse -- 2 Moral forfeiture -- 3 Defence of autonomy -- 4 Balancing interests -- 9.4 A COMMON DEFENCE TEMPLATE -- 9.5 EXCUSES -- 9.6 INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOUR: GENERAL -- 9.7 INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOUR (I): PHYSICAL INCAPACITY -- A Prior fault -- 9.8 INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOUR (II): AUTOMATISM -- A Automatism and crimes of mens rea -- B Automatism, negligence and strict liability -- C Conditions of automatism -- D Prior fault: self-induced automatism -- 9.9 INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOUR (III): INSANITY -- A The legal test of insanity -- 1 Defects of cognition -- 2 Defects of reason -- 3 Disease of the mind -- B Involuntary behaviour: evaluation -- 9.10 MISTAKE -- A Definitional mistakes -- B Mistake as to defences -- 9.11 INTOXICATION -- A Intoxication: its effect on criminal liability -- B Distinguishing voluntary and involuntary intoxication -- C Voluntary intoxication -- 1 Crimes of specific intent identified -- 2 The rationale for restricting the exculpatory scope of voluntary intoxication -- D Intoxicated mistakes -- 1 Intoxication and true defences -- 2 Intoxication and statutory defences -- 3 Intoxication and mental disorder -- E Conclusion -- Summary -- 10 Defences (2): affirmative defences -- 10.1 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEFENCES -- 10.2 COMPULSION: INTRODUCTION -- 10.3 THE RATIONALE FOR EXCUSING ON GROUNDS OF COMPULSION -- 10.4 COMPULSION (I): DURESS BY THREATS - THE LEGAL POSITION.

A What threats are required? -- B Threats against third parties -- C A part subjective and part objective test -- 1 The first question -- 2 The second question -- D Immediacy of the threat -- E Prior fault -- 1 Intoxication -- 2 Criminal organisations -- F Scope of the defence -- 10.5 COMPULSION (II): DURESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES -- 10.6 NECESSITY -- A The scope of necessity -- B Necessity as an excuse - duress of circumstances -- C Necessity as justification -- 1 Necessity operating to defeat interests -- D Necessity/duress of circumstances and murder -- 1 Necessary action consented to and in the public interest -- 2 Double effects and the preservation of life -- 10.7 USE OF FORCE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEFENCE -- 10.8 PURPOSES FOR WHICH REASONABLE FORCE MAY BE USED -- A Rules governing the use of force -- 1 The use of force must be necessary -- 2 The degree of force used must be proportionate -- 3 Proportionate from whose point of view? -- 4 What counts as force? -- 5 What offences may be committed for defensive purposes? -- 6 Justifying killing -- 10.9 JUSTIFICATORY DEFENCES: CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Summary -- Part III Offences against the person -- 11 Non-fatal offences -- 11.1 INTRODUCTION -- 11.2 OFFENCES PROTECTING PHYSICAL INTEGRITY -- A Wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent -- 1 Actus reus -- 2 Mens rea -- B Malicious wounding/infliction of grievous bodily harm -- 1 Actus reus -- 2 Mens rea -- C Aggravated assaults -- D Assault occasioning actual bodily harm -- 1 Actus reus -- 2 Mens rea -- E Other offences against the person -- 11.3 OFFENCES PROTECTING PERSONAL AUTONOMY -- A Common assault -- 1 Assault -- 2 Battery -- 11.4 DEFENCES TO OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON -- A Consent -- 1 The reality of consent -- 2 Capacity to give consent -- 3 What can be consented to? -- 4 Consent and the Law Commission -- B Necessity.

C Lawful chastisement.

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