This book shows how the mainstream doctrines of substantive criminal law map onto certain key underlying (and overlapping) principles. These principles are: legitimate criminalisation, accountability, culpability, moral responsibility and wrongdoing.

J R Edwards is Associate Professor of Law, Tutorial Fellow of Worcester College, and Lecturer at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK.
A P Simester is Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Centre for Legal Theory at the National University of Singapore.