Essentials ofCriminal Law

Author: Zhang Xu
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: The current state of insufficient research on Anglo-American criminal law in China's criminal law academia, outdated content introductions, and obscure translations of academic works. In light of this, this book aims to provide a comprehensive, systematic introduction, using accessible language, and highlighting distinctive features in its system design. It strives to integrate theory and practice, history and development, and objective introduction with comparative analysis, thereby presenting readers with a panoramic view of Anglo-American criminal law theory. Based on summarizing and synthesizing the general theoretical issues of the characteristics of Anglo-American criminal law, the nature and classification of crimes in Anglo-American criminal law, the book first conducts a general discussion on the fundamental elements for determining criminal liability, reasons for excluding criminal liability, other factors affecting criminal liability, and the main ways of bearing criminal liability. Subsequently, it explores eight major categories of crimes in Anglo-American criminal law in order: homicide, crimes against the body, sexual crimes, property crimes, traffic accidents, crimes endangering national sovereignty and management, crimes obstructing public order and social morality.
Feeling the current state of insufficient research on Anglo-American criminal law in China's criminal law academia, outdated content introductions, and obscure translations of academic works, this book aims to provide a comprehensive, systematic introduction, using accessible language, and highlighting distinctive features in its system design. It strives to integrate theory and practice, history and development, and objective introduction with comparative analysis, thereby presenting readers with a panoramic view of Anglo-American criminal law theory.