The Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Responsibility

Foreword

Nicola Lacey

Introduction

Thomas Crofts, Louise Kennefick, and Arlie Loughnan

PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

1.  Cultures of Responsibility and Blaming

Henrique Carvalho

2. Context Matters: An Argument for a Socio-Contextual Model of Criminal Responsibility

Federica Coppola

3. The Reciprocity of Criminal Responsibility

Antony Duff

4. Criminal Responsibility, Civilisation, and Empire

Catherine L Evans

5. Criminal Responsibility Attribution as a Step on the Road to Desistance? Exploring Theoretical Intersections

Louise Kennefick

6. Responsibility and “Blameworthiness” in Criminal Law

Claes Lernestedtt & Matt Matravers

7. Criminal Responsibility, Mental Disorder, and Behavioural Neuroscience

Stephen J. Morse

8. Criminal Responsibility in the Italian Colonies: The Eritrean Case (19^th–20^th Centuries)

Emilia Musumeci

9. On Dispositional-relational Responsibility: From Punishment to Reconciliation

Alan Norrie and Amanda Wilson

10. From Casuistry to the General Part: The Conception of Criminal Responsibility from the ius commune to the Penal Codes (12^th–19^th Centuries)

Michele Pifferi

PART II: DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

11. Law, Emotions, and “Reactive Defences”

Grant Barclay

12. Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law

Marcia Baron

13. The Denial/Defence and Offence/Defence Distinction: Rehabilitating Gardner to Answer the Incorporationist Challenge

David Campbell

14. The Criminal Law of Triage: A Rights-Based Approach to Justificatory Defences

Ivó Coca-Vila

15. Responsibility over Crime and Tort

Matthew Dyson

16. Criminal Responsibility for Market Misconduct

Lindsay Farmer

17.  Elements of Blameworthiness in the Law of Homicide: Harmfulness, Wrongness, and Culpability

Stuart P. Green

18. Criminal Insanity and Mental Disorder: Reconsidering the Relation

Linda Gröning

19. Comparing Criminal and Civil Responsibility: Contextualising Claims to Distinctiveness

Chloë Kennedy

20. Criminal Responsibility under Changing Knowledge Conditions (or The Future of the Criminal Law)

Arlie Loughnan

21. Forms of Duress as Defence and Mitigation

Martin Wasik

PART III: DOMAINS OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

22. Corporate Accountability for International Crimes: Towards an International Enforcement Mechanism

Evelyne Owiye Asaala

23. Disclosure of Childhood Criminal Records in England and Wales: Imposing Enduring Criminal Responsibility for Childhood Behaviours

Raymond Arthur

24. Stuck in Time: The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in England and Wales

Tim Bateman

25. Corporate Criminal Ir/responsibility

Penny Crofts

26. What does the Age of Criminal Responsibility Mean?

Thomas Crofts

27. Neurotechnology and the Insanity Defence

Allan McCay

28. Criminal Capacity and the Age of Criminal Responsibility: Dissecting the Assumptions Underlying a Single Chronological Age

Claire McDiarmid

29. Organisational Culture, Industry Norms, and Corporate Wrongdoing: A New Integrated Theory of Crime Prevention

Joe McGrath

30. Ecocide, Ecojustice, and Criminal Responsibility in International Law

Liana Georgieva Minkova

31. Criminal Responsibility in Children

Anthony Pillay

Biography

Thomas Crofts is a Professor in the School of Law and in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University Hong Kong, and an Adjunct Professor at Northumbria University, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Sydney. His research in comparative criminal law and criminal justice focuses on criminalisation and criminal responsibility, particularly in relation to young people, gender, and sexuality.

Louise Kennefick is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Glasgow. She researches across the fields of criminal law theory and criminal justice. Her monograph, The Boundaries of Blame: Towards a Universal Partial Defence for the Criminal Law, is forthcoming.

Arlie Loughnan is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Law Theory at the University of Sydney. Her interests range across criminal law, legal theory, and legal history. She is the author of Self, Others and the State: Relations of Criminal Responsibility (2020) and Manifest Madness: Mental Incapacity in Criminal Law (2012).