Part I: Preliminary
1: Punishment: Concepts, Forms, Limits
2: Legality Principle (nulla poena sine lege)
3: Constitutional limits on substantive criminal law
4: Jurisdiction
5: Procedural Contexts
6: Analysis of Criminal Liability
Part II: General Part
7: Actus Reus (Objective Elements)
8: Mens Rea (Subjective Elements)
9: Causation
10: Complicity
11: Corporate criminal liability
12: Inchoate offenses
13: Justifications
14: Excuses
Part III The Special Part
15: Offenses Against the Person
16: Offenses Against Sexual Autonomy: Rape and Sexual Assault
17: Other Offenses
Markus D. Dubber is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto.
Dubber's scholarship has focused on theoretical, comparative, and
historical aspects of criminal law. His publications include
Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law, Modern Histories of Crime and
Punishment, The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic
and International Governance, The Police Power: Patriarchy and the
Foundations of American Government, Einführung in das
US-amerikanische
Strafrecht, Criminal Law: Model Penal Code, and Victims in the War
on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights. Tatjana Hörnle is
Professor of Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, and Penal
Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin. She writes mainly about
substantive criminal law and sentencing and about the foundations
of the criminal law in moral and political philosophy and
constitutional law. In addition to numerous articles in German and
international law journals, Professor Hörnle has published on
proportionality in sentencing, on offensive conduct, on punishment
theories and on freedom of will and culpability.
Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach is an unparalleled resource
for all scholars of the criminal law. Bringing together a wealth of
material in one volume, it facilitates fine grained analysis of the
peculiarities of domestic criminal law from a comparative
perspective. As such, it is an irresistible invitation to escape
the customary jurisdictional silos of criminal law scholarship.
*Lucia Zedner, Professor of Criminal Justice, University of
Oxford*
German and United States law have long been the competing lodestars
of criminal justice. Drawing upon well-annotated cases and
statutes, Dubbers and Hörnle's Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach
provides an indispensable cartography of both legal systems and
especially their points of departure. It is hard to imagine how we
previously operated without such a well-plotted map of comparative
criminal law.
*Steven Wilf, Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce,
University of Connecticut*
For the first time, the wealth of German legal thinking in criminal
law has been made accessible to English-speaking jurists. Two
leading experts of comparative legal thinking present the great
cases of German and U.S. criminal law and masterfully analyze their
meaning and impact. Anyone interested in criminal law will vastly
profit from the novel perspectives that this volume offers.
*Professor Dr. Thomas Weigend, University of Cologne*
Dubber and Hörnle have teamed up to produce a richly stimulating
volume, one that doubles as an innovative teaching tool and a
valuable reference work on comparative criminal law. By comparing
American and German law to each other, the authors reveal much
about the underlying structure of criminal law that readers might
miss by looking at either system on its own.
*Stuart P. Green, Distinguished Professor of Law and Nathan L.
Jacobs Scholar, Rutgers School of Law*
Dubber and Hörnle Criminal Law is a pioneering piece of comparative
law scholarship. Avoiding the kaleidoscope of multiple systems
description, this innovative book offers a profound and detailed
analysis of two major criminal law traditions: the US and the
German one. Taking so seriously the comparative approach, Dubber
and Hörnle allow the reader to understand not only the essential
features of the examined systems, but also the very nature of
fundamental principles, doctrines, and critical decisions that
shape the criminal law almost everywhere today.
*Professor Michele Papa, University of Florence*
Dubbers and Hörnles book is unique in its approach; Criminal Law -
A Comparative Approach looks behind the scenes of two of the most
influential criminal law systems. It provides a highly instructive
account of their conceptual foundations and offers an illuminating
juxtaposition and analysis of their specific approaches towards a
vast array of modern-day criminal law's most important subjects. In
so doing, the authors not only foster mutual understanding, but
also surprise their readers with numerous insights into the inner
workings of their own legal systems.
*Frank Meyer, Professor at the University of Zurich*
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