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Principles of Namibian Criminal Law distils the major principles that help people answer this one big, life-defining question: Is the accused guilty?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zongwe, Dunia P. (Dunia Prince) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mankon, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Criminal law.
Criminal law > Namibia.
Namibia.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • About the Author
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Criminal law: a path to an enlightened place
  • The absence of textbooks on Namibian criminal law
  • Why this book?
  • My debts
  • Your turn
  • Chapter 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 Welcome to Criminal Law!
  • 2 Aims or goals of the book
  • 3 How I achieve those aims
  • 4 Is this book for you?
  • 5 What is in it for you?
  • Chapter 2
  • The Namibian criminal justice system
  • 1 Crime in Namibia
  • 2 Sources of criminal law and their historical background
  • 2.1 Roman-Dutch common law
  • 2.2 Case law
  • 2.3 Doctrinal writings
  • 2.4 International law
  • 3 The impact of the Namibian Constitution on criminal law
  • 4 Classification of crimes
  • 5 The main actors in the criminal justice system
  • 5.1 The accused
  • 5.2 Police officers
  • 5.3 Prosecutors
  • 5.4 Lawyers
  • 5.5 Judges and magistrates
  • 6 The process
  • 7 Criminal courts
  • Chapter 3
  • Criminal law theories
  • 1 In search for a theory of criminal law
  • 2 What makes conduct criminal
  • 3 Understanding why we criminalize
  • 3.1 The guiding rationales
  • 4 The requirement of unlawfulness helps in determining what conduct to criminalize
  • 5 How and when to criminalize and de-criminalize
  • Chapter 4
  • Theories of punishment
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Are penal theories part of substantive criminal law?
  • 3 The crime, the accused, and society
  • 3.1 The crime and the criminal
  • 3.2 The interest of society
  • 4 Classification of theories
  • 5 Retribution
  • 6 Prevention
  • 7 Deterrence
  • 8 Rehabilitation
  • 9 Combining theories
  • 10 Mercy
  • Chapter 5
  • Criminal liability
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Models of liability
  • 3 Is the accused guilty?
  • 4 The principle of legality
  • 5 Conduct
  • 5.1 Conduct must be voluntary
  • 5.2 Act
  • 5.3 Omission
  • 5.4 Possession
  • 6 The definitional elements
  • 6.1 Intention as part of the definitional elements of culpability?
  • 6.2 Classification of crimes according to their definitional elements
  • 7 Unlawfulness
  • 8 Culpability
  • Chapter 6
  • Causation
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Overview
  • 3 The factual test
  • 4 The legal test
  • 4.1 Theory of adequate causation
  • 4.2 The individualisation theories
  • 4.3 Intervening acts
  • Chapter 7
  • Unlawfulness
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The basic notion
  • 3 Private defense, necessity, and consent
  • 4 Official capacity
  • 5 Use of force and homicide during arrest
  • 5.1 Use of force
  • 5.2 Homicide during arrest
  • 6 Obedience to orders, chastisement, and trivialities
  • 6.1 Obedience to orders
  • 6.2 Disciplinary chastisement
  • 6.3 Trivialities
  • 7 Entrapment
  • 7.1 Definition
  • 7.2 Is entrapment a valid defense in Namibia?
  • 7.3 Entrapment as impermissible evidence and mitigating factor
  • Chapter 8
  • Private defense, necessity and consent
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Private defense
  • 2.1 Definition and requirements

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