Leading Works in Criminal Law

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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. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introducing Leading Works in Criminal Law 2 Thomas Macaulay, The Indian Penal Code (1837) 3 James Fitzjames Stephen, Digest of Criminal Law (1877) 4 The Malawi Penal Code: Chapter XV Offences Against Morality (1929) 5 Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals (1965) 6 Colin Howard, Australian Criminal Law (1965) 7 George Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law (1978) 8 Susan Estrich, Real Rape (1987) 9 Nicola Lacey, Celia Wells and Dirk Meure, Reconstructing Criminal Law (1990) 10 Andrew Ashworth, Principles of Criminal Law (1991) 11 Alan Norrie, Crime, Reason and History (1993) 12 Jeremy Horder, ‘Rethinking Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person’ (1994) 13 Leading Works: Concluding Reflections Index