This book analyses a selection of leading works in the criminal law to ask questions about how the modern discipline of criminal law has developed, how it has been deployed in colonial and postcolonial contexts, and how criminal law scholarship has engaged with traditionally marginalised perspectives such as feminism, queer theory, and anti-carceral and abolitionist movements. The works analysed range from Macaulay’s Indian Penal Code (1837) to more recent textbooks and monographs on criminal law, and their jurisdictional reach extends to India, Canada, Australia, Malawi, the UK and the USA. The contributing authors include scholars, activists and legal practitioners, each of whom explores the intellectual development and geographical reach of Anglocriminal law via the work they analyse. Across the collection, the editors and contributors address the question of what it means to be a leading work in criminal law. The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics and researchers working in the area of criminal law.
Edited by:
Chloë Kennedy,
Lindsay Farmer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032046327
ISBN 10: 1032046325
Series: Analysing Leading Works in Law
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introducing Leading Works in Criminal Law CHLOË KENNEDY AND LINDSAY FARMER 2 Thomas Macaulay, The Indian Penal Code (1837) ARUSHI GARG 3 James Fitzjames Stephen, Digest of Criminal Law (1877) CATHERINE L. EVANS 4 The Malawi Penal Code: Chapter XV Off ences Against Morality (1929) SARAI CHISALA-TEMPELHOFF AND CHIKONDI MANDALA 5 Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals (1965) NICOLA LACEY 6 Colin Howard, Australian Criminal Law (1965) ARLIE LOUGHNAN 7 George Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law (1978) LINDSAY FARMER 8 Susan Estrich, Real Rape (1987) SHARON COWAN 9 Nicola Lacey, Celia Wells and Dirk Meure, Reconstructing Criminal Law (1990) KATE LEADER 10 Andrew Ashworth, Principles of Criminal Law (1991) ANDREW CORNFORD 11 Alan Norrie, Crime, Reason and History (1993) CHLOË KENNEDY 12 Jeremy Horder, ‘Rethinking Non-Fatal Off ences Against the Person’ (1994) RACHEL C. TOLLEY 13 Leading Works: Concluding Refl ections CHLOË KENNEDY AND LINDSAY FARMER Index
Chloë Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Edinburgh. Lindsay Farmer is Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.
