Criminal Law and Criminal Justice - Advanced Legal Writings

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Description
1. Aim at enabling the reader to a better understanding of the dynamics of the criminal law/criminal justice rule of law in a wide angle, cutting across countries and time periods
2. Reflect the criminal law and criminal justice legality at the normative and the grassroots level.
3. Aim of these Writings is to impart critical knowledge on issues that remain marginalized in law curriculum's
4. Have a broader and critical view of the criminal law and criminal justice realities not limited by the requirements of a course
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Table of Contents
Part A - History And Evolution Of Western And Indian Criminal Law/Systems
I. History of the English and the Roman Criminal Law
II. History and Early Evolution of the English Criminal Law
III. History and Evolution of the Indian Criminal Law: Motivations, Structure of the Indian Penal Code
IV. Penal Code as the Rationalised Criminal Law in the Early Colonial and Pre-independence India
Part B - The Elements And Essential Principles Of Criminal Law/Liability
V. The “Actus Reus” Element
VI. The Mens Rea or Guilty-mind Element
Part C - The Critiques Of The Formal Criminal Law System And Its Resurrection
VII. Growing Critiques of the Formal Criminal Law System in the Western World
VIII. Evaluations of the Critical Criminal Law Writing
IX. Indicators of Resurrection of the Formal Criminal Law Systems in the West and in India
Part D - The Forgotten And Ignored Premise Of The Processual Justice
X. Rationalising the Pre-Trial Processes in India
XI. Strivings for the Creation of Enabling Justicing Conditions
XII. Interlocking Nature of the Procedural Due Process and the Constitutional Due Process
Glossary of the Legal and Colloquial Terms used in the Writings
Subject Index
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Author Details
PROF. B.B. Pande Formerly Professor of Law, Delhi University Distinguished Professor, National Law University, Delhi, Odisha and Assam Professor, Head & Dean, Faculty of Law, Lucknow University Consultant (Research), National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi
Introduction by : Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah Former Chief Justice of India