Book Description This new edition of Andrew Ashworth's popular and authoritative textbook incorporates all changes in the field of criminal law since the publication of the last edition in 1999. It addresses the underlying principles and rationales of criminal law, and has a more theoretical and stimulating approach than standard textbooks. It is an accessible, readable text th...(展开全部)

【英】杰瑞米·侯德（Jeremy Horder） 1989年获得牛津大学博士学位，曾执教于牛津大学、伦敦国王学院，2013年起为伦敦政治经济学院刑法学教授。著有《激怒与责任》《犯罪免责》《杀人罪和法律改革的政治》等书，已发表学术论文五十余篇。 译者 时延安，中国人民大学法学院教授、博士生导师，教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地中国人民大学刑事法律科学研究中心主任；中国犯罪学学会副会长，中国刑法学研究会常务理事。曾在纽约大学法学院、牛津大学犯罪学中心访学。在《中国社会科学》等刊物发表论文100余篇，出版3部专著，主编、译著12部。 史蔚，中国人民大学刑法学博士研究生，德国哥廷根大学联合培养博士研究生。

Andrew Ashworth addresses the underlying principles and rationales of criminal law, providing students with a depth and maturity of analysis that confronts the major challenges in criminal law. The book incorporates all the recent developments in criminal law, including the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and addresses current controversies such as the debate over the shape of the la...(展开全部)

In A Question of Intent: Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China, Jennifer M. Neighbors uses legal cases from the local, provincial and central levels to explore both the complexity with which Qing law addressed abstract concepts and the process of adoption, adaptation, and resistance as late imperial law gave way to criminal law of the Republican period....(展开全部)

European criminal law is explained as a multi-level field of law, in which the European Union has a normative influence on substantive criminal law, criminal procedure and on the co-operation between Member States. This book aims to describe the contours of the emerging criminal justice system of the European Union and to present a coherent picture of the legislation enacted an...(展开全部)

In the US, one out of every 138 residents is incarcerated. The size of the prison population has quadrupled since 1980. Approximately 2.4% of Americans are either on probation and parole. The US has the highest rate of criminal punishment in the Western world. The problem with American criminal law, as the philosopher of law Douglas Husak and many others see it, is that there i...(展开全部)

Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law, now in its ninth edition, takes a distinctive approach to the subject of criminal law, whilst still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses. Uniquely theoretical, it seeks to enlighten the reader as to the underlying principles and theoretical foundations of the criminal law, critically engaging readers by contextual...(展开全部)

罗伯特·C.埃里克森（Robert C.Ellickson），美国当代杰出的财产和城市法学者，耶鲁大学法学院沃尔特·梅耶财产和城市法讲席教授（2015年荣休）。研究主要集中在产权、城市规划和法律与社会规范三个领域，在上述领域皆有经典作品传世，也是被引用多的学者之一。他早年就读于奥柏林学院、耶鲁法学院和麻省理工学院的城市与区域规划系。自1970年起，埃里克森教授先后执教于南加州大学、斯坦福大学和耶鲁大学，在1988年转至耶鲁法学院任教后，常年讲授已经成为耶鲁法学院经典课程的“财产法”。埃里克森是美国法律经济学协会的创始会员，并担任协会主席（2000-2001年），曾获得该协会授予的罗纳德·科斯奖章，系继波斯纳、卡拉布雷西、史蒂文·萨维尔后第四位获此殊荣的学者。埃里克森教授还担任过美国法律协会财产法重述项目的顾问，并且是美国艺术与科学院院士。埃里克森教授...(展开全部)

Robert Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules - social norms - without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship in law, economics, sociology, game theory and anthropology, Ellickson investigates the uncharted world within...(展开全部)

"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century", Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world", as secretary to the peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing their memoirs in advance -- or poor fools...(展开全部)