Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Responsibility

<p>Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame to analysing criminal law and justice responses and factors that impact individual responsibility.</p><p>Inviting exchanges across a burgeoning critical scholarship on criminal responsibility this Handbook showcases the diverse range of methodologies applied to the field including socio-political approaches critical historical methods criminological and sociological perspectives and interdisciplinary studies bridging law and the mind sciences. Spanning global networks of established and emerging scholars of responsibility for crime this book explores how we relate to one another as human beings under the spotlight of the criminal law. In doing so it is hoped that the collection not only does justice to the vibrant landscape of criminal responsibility studies but inspires new directions and future synergies in this compelling field.</p><p><i>The Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Responsibility</i> will appeal to scholars and students of criminal law criminal justice criminology sociology psychology neuroscience philosophy and socio-legal studies as well as practitioners and policymakers working in related fields.</p>