The Crime of Aggression at the International Criminal Court
in The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law
January 2015; p ublished online June 2016 .
Article. Subjects: International Law; Criminal Law; Criminology. 13808 words.
This chapter focuses on the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. The discussion provides background to the crime of aggression and the resulting...
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Crime, Security, and Information Communication Technologies
in The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology
July 2017; p ublished online February 2017 .
Article. Subjects: IT and Communications Law; Criminology; Criminal Law. 9663 words.
Networked digital technologies have transformed crime to a point that ‘cybercrime’ is here to stay. In the future, society will be forced to respond to a broad variety of networked crimes...
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Criminology
in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law
November 2014; p ublished online March 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Law; Criminal Law; Criminology. 9783 words.
This chapter examines the identity crisis that currently afflicts the field of criminology. Arguing that “criminology” must be viewed as a bundle of several distinct disciplines with...
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Homicide
in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law
November 2014; p ublished online March 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Law; Criminal Law; Criminology. 10922 words.
This chapter explores the development of homicide law in England and the United States. It begins by arguing that homicide law plays an important role in vindicating victims and...
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Theories of Crime and Punishment
in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law
November 2014; p ublished online March 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Law; Criminal Law; Criminology. 11727 words.
This chapter examines the central issues for the justification of criminalization and punishment in the context of criminal law. Specifically, it considers whether there is a class of acts...
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Theories of Criminalization
in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law
November 2014; p ublished online March 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Law; Criminal Law; Criminology. 10600 words.
This chapter examines theories of criminalization. It first considers the impact of constitutional law on criminalization and constitutional courts’ tendency to avoid declaring criminal...
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