1st Edition

Leading Works in Criminal Law

Edited By Chloë Kennedy, Lindsay Farmer Copyright 2024
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses a selection of leading works in the criminal law to ask questions about how the modern discipline of criminal law has developed, how it has been deployed in colonial and postcolonial contexts, and how criminal law scholarship has engaged with traditionally marginalised perspectives such as feminism, queer theory, and anti-carceral and abolitionist movements. The works analysed... Read more

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introducing Leading Works in Criminal Law

CHLOË KENNEDY AND LINDSAY FARMER

2 Thomas Macaulay, The Indian Penal Code (1837)

ARUSHI GARG

3 James Fitzjames Stephen, Digest of Criminal Law (1877)

CATHERINE L. EVANS

4 The Malawi Penal Code: Chapter XV Off ences Against Morality (1929)

SARAI CHISALA-TEMPELHOFF AND CHIKONDI MANDALA

5 Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals (1965)

NICOLA LACEY

6 Colin Howard, Australian Criminal Law (1965)

ARLIE LOUGHNAN

7 George Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law (1978)

LINDSAY FARMER

8 Susan Estrich, Real Rape (1987)

SHARON COWAN

9 Nicola Lacey, Celia Wells and Dirk Meure, Reconstructing Criminal Law (1990)

KATE LEADER

10 Andrew Ashworth, Principles of Criminal Law (1991)

ANDREW CORNFORD

11 Alan Norrie, Crime, Reason and History (1993)

CHLOË KENNEDY

12 Jeremy Horder, ‘Rethinking Non-Fatal Off ences Against the Person’ (1994)

RACHEL C. TOLLEY

13 Leading Works: Concluding Refl ections

CHLOË KENNEDY AND LINDSAY FARMER

Index

Biography

Chloë Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Lindsay Farmer is Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.