Fault in Criminal Law

This volume presents a comparative examination of the issue of Fault in Criminal Law. The collection focuses on fault liability for inculpation with contributions from leading specialists from different jurisdictions presenting alternative perspectives.

This volume presents a comparative examination of the issue of fault in criminal law. Extant law reveals significant problems in adoption of consistent approaches to doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings of fault liability and culpability thresholds in criminal law. This has been exemplified by a plethora of recent jurisprudential authorities revealing varying degrees of confusion and vacillation. This collection focuses on fault liability for inculpation with contributions from leading specialists from different jurisdictions presenting alternative perspectives. The book addresses three specific elements within the arena of fault, embracing an overarching synergy between them. This structure facilitates an examination of UK provisions, with specialist contributions on domestic law, and in contrasting these provisions against alternative domestic jurisdictions as well as comparative contributions addressing a particularised research grid for content. The comparative chapters provide a wider background of how other legal systems treat a variety of specialised issues relating to fault elements in the context of the criminal law. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics, and practitioners working in this area.

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Alan Reed is a professor of criminal and private international law at Northumbria University, and Deputy Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Exchange) in the Faculty of Business and Law. He is Editor of the Journal of Criminal Law, and an Advisory Board Member of the Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Michael Bohlander holds the Chair in Comparative and International Criminal Law at Durham University.

Bethany Simpson is a lecturer in criminal law and social justice at Newcastle University. Her research explores modern-day slavery and human trafficking.

Verity Adams is a barrister at Trinity Chambers in Newcastle. Her research interests are in criminal law and evidence, immigration and public international law.

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List of Contributors Preface ** Introduction ** PART 1 ** 1 The Fault Requirement of Indecent Photographs of Children**

ALISDAIR A GILLESPIE ** 2 Defining Fault in Loss of Control: Determining Culpability Through Excuse Theory**

AMANDA CLOUGH ** 3 Strict Liability Crimes: The Contours of Liability and Crimogenic Impact**

ALAN REED ** 4 Causation, Fault, and Responsibility**

GR SULLIVAN AND AP SIMESTER ** 5 Understanding the 'Fault' in Prior-Fault Intoxication: Insights From Behavioural Neuroscience**

HANS S CROMBAG, JOHN J CHILD, AND RUDI FORTSON ** 6 Ages of Consent and Responsibility in Criminal Law: Should They Be the Same?**

JONATHAN HERRING ** 7 Fault, Article 7, and the Courts' Development of the Criminal Law

JEREMY HORDER ** 8 'Crimes of Passion': Emotion, Fault, and the Criminal Law**

JOHN E STANNARD ** PART 2 ** 9 Germany

KAI AMBOS AND STEFANIE BOCK ** 10 Australia**

MIRKO BAGARIC ** 11 The United States of America**

VERA BERGELSON ** 12 Russia**

GLEB BOGUSH ** 13 Islamic Law**

MOHAMMAD HEDAYATI-KAKHKI ** 14 Africa**

GERHARD KEMP AND BERNARD NTAHIRAJA ** 15 China**

ANDRA LE ROUX-KEMP Index