Rationale-Based Defences in Criminal Law
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 3483
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Hart Publishing Limited
- ISBN
- 9781509902958
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 216-page monograph is the product of five years of sustained doctrinal, theoretical, and philosophical research from several jurisdictions concerning the taxonomy of a range of criminal law defences, including self-defence, defence of property, necessity, and duress. It engages critically and creatively with these materials, and marries insights from the common law and civil law traditions to describe and defend an entirely novel way of understanding and classifying defensive pleas. It proposes a new ‘quality of reasoning’ model of supervening defences, offering intuitive and principled solutions to longstanding controversies and puzzles in the field, and identifying avenues for doctrinal reform.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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