This collection presents a leading contribution in the substantive arena relating to Causation in Criminal Law. Extant law reveals significant problems in adoption of consistent approaches to doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings of legal causation and culpability thresholds. This has been exemplified by a plethora of recent jurisprudential authorities revealing varying degrees of confusion and vacillation. A variety of Law Commission proposals, although emboldening the debate, have yet to be adopted in any logical template. The volume addresses three specific elements within this arena, embracing an overarching synergy between them. This edifice engages in an examination of UK provisions, with specialist contributions on domestic law, and in contrasting these provisions against alternative domestic jurisdictions as well as comparative contributions addressing a particularised research grid for content. The comparative chapters provide a wider background of how other legal systems treat a variety of specialised issues relating to causation in the context of the criminal law. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics, and practitioners working in Comparative Criminal Law and related areas.
List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction;
1. Novus Actus Interveniens
and the Autonomy Principle: Breaking the Link, Jonathan Herring; 2.Variations
on a Theme of Causation: Blameworthiness, Voluntarism and Consent in Intimate
Partner Homicide, Susan S. M. Edwards; 3.Causality, Culpability and
Criminalising Failures to Rescue, Gavin Dingwall, Alisdair A. Gillespie;
4.Causing Death by the Unlawful Supply of Drugs: A Remodelling of Criminal
Causation Using Tortious Precepts, Mark James, Alan Reed; 5.Causation in Tort
and Criminal Law: Is it Truly a Distinction Without a Difference?, Jesse
Elvin, Claire de Than; 6.Criminal Causation, Culpability, Coherence and
Common Sense, John E. Stannard; 7.Causation and Criminal Responsibility;
Grant Firkins; 8.Germany, Kai Ambos, Stefanie Bock;
9. Australia, Mirko
Bagaric; 10.United States of America, Vera Bergelson; 11.Russia, Gennady
Esakov; 12.Islam, Mohammad Hedayati-Kakhki;
13. Africa, Gerhard Kemp;
14.China, Andra le Roux-Kemp.
Alan Reed is a Professor of Law and Private International Law and leads research in the Faculty of Business and Law at Northumbria University, UK.
Michael Bohlander holds the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy at Durham University, UK.
Bethany Simpson is a Lecturer in Criminal Law and Social Justice at Newcastle University, UK.
Verity Adams is a barrister at Trinity Chambers in Newcastle, UK.
