Review of R.A. Duff, Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law

Haque, Adil Ahmad

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Review of R.A. Duff, Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law

Adil Ahmad Haque

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - School of Law-Newark

July 29, 2008

Law & Politics Book Review, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 423-426, May 2008
Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 028

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Every account of the structure of criminal law involves an attempt to explain the content of and relationship between four basic concepts: wrongdoing, responsibility, fault, and punishment. The most ambitious accounts focus on a single concept in terms of which the others can be understood. ANSWERING FOR CRIME contains illuminating discussions of a variety of discrete issues, ranging from the relationship between attacks and endangerments to the difference between strict responsibility and strict liability, to the justification of mala prohibita crimes. But the greatest contribution of this marvelous book lies in Antony Duff's elegant and arresting vision of criminal law's conceptual foundation.

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Keywords: Criminal law, R.A. Duff, responsibility, justification, excuse

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Date posted: July 30, 2008 ; Last revised: December 21, 2010

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Haque, Adil Ahmad, Review of R.A. Duff, Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law (July 29, 2008). Law & Politics Book Review, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 423-426, May 2008; Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 028. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1187122

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