Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law

by R.A. Duff

Book Overview

In this long-awaited book, Antony Duff offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability. His starting point is a distinction between responsibility (understood as answerability) and liability, and a conception of responsibility as relational and practice-based. This focus on responsibility, as a matter of being answerable to those who have the standing to call one to account, throws new light on a range of questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849460337
• ISBN13: 9781849460330
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"