General Principles of Criminal Law
General Principles of Criminal Law
This chapter discusses the general principles of criminal law. It considers common fault concepts together with the substance and structure of general defences. Criminal fault represents the most distinctive and varied incriminatory component of liability; and, broadly, the exculpatory mechanisms of defences represent the other side of the conceptual coin. A second dimension of general principles embraces auxiliary or complementary forms of criminal liability, spanning and operating alongside specific offences; the most significant of these are inchoate liability (incitement, conspiracy, and attempt), and complicity or secondary liability. To a greater or lesser degree, all of these areas of ‘general principles’ underwent significant development in the 19th century.
Keywords: English law, criminal law, criminal fault, defences, criminal liability
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