Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and MaterialsReconstructing Criminal Law provides a radical and stimulating alternative to the standard black letter criminal law text. The authors analyse central aspects of criminal law in the context of the assumptions surrounding it, and employ a number of critical approaches, including a feminist perspective to give insights into the current state of the law. A comprehensive resource - it contains extracts that cover a wide range of materials from historical, political, sociological and philosophical sources and discusses offences considered to be at the margins of criminal law. It also offers an important practical element whereby students and teachers can attempt to answer the questions that the criminal justice system confronts on a daily basis. |
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Contents
Approaching criminal law | 1 |
in search of the golden thread | 23 |
Criminal laws in their social and procedural context | 70 |
Law and order | 111 |
Breach of the peace | 162 |
Risk and danger | 216 |
legal constructions of a social problem | 271 |
Property and propriety | 310 |
Sexual violence | 473 |
Regulating sexuality | 516 |
Regulating maternity | 579 |
conceptions of violence | 625 |
The criminal regulation of public safety | 637 |
b Characteristics of regulatory offences | 645 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials Law in Context |
| Authors | Nicola Lacey, Celia Wells, Oliver Quick |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521606047, 9780521606042 |
| Length | 912 pages |
| Subjects | › › Law / Criminal Law / General Law / General Law / Jurisprudence |
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