In search of criminal responsibility : ideas, interests, and institutions /
Nicola Lacey.
- xviii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
- Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice .
- Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice. .
Through a combined philosophical, historical, and socio-legal methodology, this volume investigates the changing nature of criminal responsibility in English law from the mid-18th century to the early 21st century, arguing that ideas of character responsibility are enjoying a renaissance in the modern criminal law.