The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law reflects the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, providing scholars with a comprehensive international resource, a common point of entry into cutting edge contemporary research and a snapshot of the state and scope of the field. To this end, the Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter, disciplinarily, geographically, and systematically. Its contributors include current and future research leaders representing a variety of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise, and research agendas.

The Handbook is divided into four parts: Approaches & Methods (I), Systems & Methods (II), Aspects & Issues (III), and Contexts & Comparisons (IV). Part I includes essays exploring various methodological approaches to criminal law (such as criminology, feminist studies, and history). Part II provides an overview of systems or models of criminal law, laying the foundation for further inquiry into specific conceptions of criminal law as well as for comparative analysis (such as Islamic, Marxist, and military law). Part III covers the three aspects of the penal process: the definition of norms and principles of liability (substantive criminal law), along with a less detailed treatment of the imposition of norms (criminal procedure) and the infliction of sanctions (prison law). Contributors consider the basic topics traditionally addressed in scholarship on the general and special parts of the substantive criminal law (such as jurisdiction, mens rea, justifications, and excuses). Part IV places criminal law in context, both domestically and transnationally, by exploring the contrasts between criminal law and other species of law and state power and by investigating criminal law's place in the projects of comparative law, transnational, and international law.

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Edited by Markus D Dubber, Professor of Law, University of Toronto, and Tatjana Hörnle, Professor of Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, and Penal Philosophy, Humboldt University

Table of Contents:
Introduction I. Approaches & Methods 1: Mariana Valverde and Pat O'Malley: Criminology 2: Bennett Capers: Critical Race Theory 3: Talia Fisher: Economics 4: Prabha Kotiswaran: Feminist Studies 5: James Whitman: History 6: Simon Stern: Literature 7: Leo Zaibert: Philosophy 8: Shai Lavi and Galia Schneebaum: Sociology 9: Mireille Hildebrandt: Technology II. Systems & Models 10: Heikki Pihlajamäki and Mia Korpiola: Canon Law 11: Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland: Indigenous Law 12: Sylvia Tellenbach: Islamic Law 13: Arnold Enker: Jewish Law 14: Stephen Thaman: Marxist & Soviet Law 15: Rain Liivoja: Military Law III. Aspects & Issues A. Foundations 16: Emmanuel Melissaris: Theories of Crime and Punishment 17: Lindsay Farmer: Codification 18: Alejandro Chehtman: Jurisdiction 19: Benjamin Berger: Constitutional Principles B. Substantive Criminal Law (i) General Part 20: Vincent Chiao: Actus Reus 21: Carl-Friedrich Stuckenberg: Causation 22: Thomas Weigend: Mens Rea 23: Michael Cahill: Inchoate Offenses 24: James Stewart: Complicity 25: Susanne Beck: Corporate Criminal Liability 26: Ulf Neumann: Necessity and Duress 27: Victoria Nourse: Self-Defense 28: Vera Bergelson: Consent 29: Christoph Safferling: Insanity and Intoxication (ii) Special Part 30: Tatjana Hörnle: Rechtsgut and the Harm Principle 31: Guyora Binder: Offenses Against the Person: Homicide 32: James Chalmers: Offenses Against the Person: Assault 33: Vanessa Munro: Offenses Against Sexual Autonomy 34: Stuart Green: Offenses Against Property 35: Beatrice Brunhöber: Drug Offenses 36: Kent Roach: Terrorism 37: Sam Buell: 'White Collar' Crimes 38: Darryl Brown: Public Welfare Offenses C. Criminal Process 39: Máximo Langer: Models of the Criminal Process 40: Frank Meyer: Discretion D. Criminal Sanctions 41: Nora Demleitner: Types of Punishment 42: Erik Luna: Sentencing 43: Dirk van Zyl Smit: Prison Law IV. Contexts & Comparisons A. Province of Criminal Law 44: Markus D Dubber: Paradigms of Penal Law 45: Alon Harel: Public Law and Private Law 46: Daniel Ohana: Regulatory Offenses and Administrative Sanctions B. Beyond Domestic Criminal Law 47: Luis Chiesa: Comparative Criminal Law 48: Kimmo Nuotio: European Criminal Law 49: Elies van Sliedregt: International Criminal Law