Defining Crimes Essays on the Special Part of the Criminal Law

This collection of essays tackle a range of issues about the criminal law's "special part"--the part that defines specific offences. Topics include the scope of the criminal law: to what extent should it include offenses of possession, or endangerment? Regulatory offences and more specific offences such as murder, rape, domestic violence, bribery, theft and other property offences are also discussed. How crimes should be classified and the orthodox distinction between crimes of "basic" and of "general" intent are examined. Other issues concern the ways in which specific offences should be defined, and how far those definitions should identify distinctive types of wrong.

Professor R. A. Duff, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling
Educated at Oxford; after a year at University of Washington, Seattle, has taught at Stirling since 1970.
British Academy Research Readership 1989-91; Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship 2002-05; FRSE 1996, FBA 2004. Professor Stuart P. Green, Louis B Porterie Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
Graduate of Yale Law School; has taught at Louisiana State University since 1995. Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in U.K. 2002-03.