This is a reprint of a book first published by Little, Brown in 1978. George Fletcher is working on a new edition which will be published by OUP in three volumes, the first of which is scheduled to appear in January 2001. Rethinking Criminal Law is still perhaps the most influential and often cited theoretical work on American criminal law. This reprint will keep this classi...(展开全部)

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)

【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。

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)

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)

Criminal law, according to George Fletcher, has become localized law in the sense that each country and, within the US, each state has adopted its own set of criminal codes, conceptions of punishable behaviour, etc. In this book, Fletcher maintains that there is much greater unity among diverse systems of criminal justice than commonly realized, and that any adequate system of ...(展开全部)

This book offers a set of essays, old and new, examining the positive obligationsof individuals and the state in matters of criminal law. The centrepiece is a new,extended essay on the criminalisation of omissions examining the duties to act imposed on individuals and organisations by the criminal law, and assessing theirmoral and social foundations. Alongside this is another ...(展开全部)

With the establishment of numerous international and mixed tribunals in recent years, international criminal law has gained unprecedented importance and continues to expand tremendously. This systematic analysis of substantive international criminal law examines its general principles, sources and evolution as well as specific international crimes, providing an in-depth analysi...(展开全部)