Full Description
Criminalisation and Criminal Responsibility in Australia brings together critical scholarship on the major issues in criminal law and justice in an historical context and in the current era. This edited collection includes high-profile scholars from across Australia. The collection represents a major contribution to criminal law scholarly, policy and other debates and will be suitable for use as a prescribed text in Advanced Criminal Law units in a law degree.
Contents
1. Introduction - Thomas Crofts and Arlie Loughnan2. Constituting Physical and Fault Elements: A NSW Case Study - David Brown3. Criminalisation research in Australia: Building a foundation for normative theorising and principled law reform - Luke McNamara4. Criminalisation, the development of the summary jurisdiction and Aboriginal people - Tanya Mitchell5. Criminalisation and Drugs: What Should We Do About Cannabis? - Melanie Schwartz6. Assault Causing Death Crimes as a Response to 'One Punch' and 'Alcohol Fuelled' Violence: A Critical Examination of Australian Laws - Julia Quilter7. Criminalisation and Young People: How Should the Law Respond to Sexting? - Thomas Crofts8. Criminalisation and Technology: What's the Harm of Using Mobile Phones While Driving - Alex Steele9. Complicity in Cyberspace: Applying doctrines of accessorial liability to online groups - Gregor Urbas10. In accordance with modern notions': Criminal Responsibility at the turn of the Twentieth Century - Arlie Loughnan11. Criminal Responsibility and Family Violence: The Relationship between (Feminist) Academic Critique and Judicial Decision-making - Heather Douglas12. Criminal responsibility and Objective Fault Requirements: A Feminist Assessment of Reasonableness in Self-defence - Stella Tarrant13. Home invasion, excessive force and self-defence in The Walking Dead - Penny Crofts14. The criminal law and nineteenth-century treatment of Aboriginal human remains - Stephen Gray15. Proof of serial child sexual abuse: Case-law developments and recidivism data - David Hamer16. Pre-Crime control measures: anti-association law - Andrew Dyer17. The Policing of Immigration: Raids, Citizenship and the Criminal Law - Louise Boon-Kuo18. Contemporary Challenges for the Delivery of International Criminal Justice: Where to the ICC - Mark Findlay
