Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Volume 1

Kai Ambos is the holder of the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law and International Criminal Law at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. He is also Head of the Department of Foreign and International Criminal Law, Institute of Criminal Law and Justice at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany. Anthony Duff is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Stirling, and an Honorary Professor in the Edinburgh Law School. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and holds an honorary doctorate from Universitetet i Oslo. He was a founding co-editor of the journal Criminal Law and Philosophy. Julian Roberts is currently a member of the Sentencing Council of England and Wales, Associate Editor of the European Journal of Criminology and Visiting Research Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Minnesota. He is is co-Director of the Criminal History Project located in the Robina Institute, Faculty of Law, University of Minnesota. Thomas Weigend is a Professor Emeritus of International, Comparative and German Criminal Law at the University of Cologne. He was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Tokyo, New York University, Peking University, Universitá di Bologna, and other universities. Alexander Heinze is an Assistant Professor of law at Georg-August-Universität School of Law, Göttingen, Germany. His research and publications (in English and German) deal with various aspects of comparative law, media law, international criminal procedure, legal theory, philosophy and sociology of law.

'Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice brings together leading scholars from Anglo-American and Germanic jurisdictions in the attempt to build a 'common grammar' of criminal law and criminal justice. The insightful collection will be an invaluable point of reference for any researcher in the field.' Gleb Bogush, School of General and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Higher School of Economics, Russia

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Introductory remarks Kai Ambos, Antony Duff, Julian Roberts and Thomas Weigend; Part II. Criminal Law: 2. Omissions Kai Ambos; 3. Preparatory offences Stefanie Bock and Findlay Stark; 4. Participation in crime Antje du Bois-Pedain; 5. Consent in the law relating to sexual offences Thomas O'Malley and Elisa Hoven; 6. Terrorism offences Andrew Cornford and Anneke Petzsche; Part III. Criminal Justice and Procedure: 7. Proportionality of punishment in common law jurisdictions and in Germany Richard S. Frase, Carsten Momsen, Thomas O'Malley and Sarah Lisa Washington; 8. Criminal history enhancements at sentencing Julian Roberts and Stefan Harrendorf; 9. Due process Lucia Zedner and Carl-Friedrich Stuckenberg; 10. The role of the prosecutor Alexander Heinze and Shannon Fyfe; 11. Negotiated case depositions in Germany, England, and the United States Thomas Weigend and Jenia Turner; 12. Exclusion or non-use of illegally gathered evidence in the criminal process: focus on common law and German approaches Stephen Thaman and Dominik Brodowski.