Book contents
- Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
- Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Criminal Law
- 2 Structures within Criminal Legal Reasoning
- 3 Causation and Responsibility for Outcomes
- 4 Imputation of Responsibility and Intoxicated Offending
- 5 Crimes of Endangerment
- Part II Criminal Procedure
- Part III Criminal Justice
- Index
- References
3 - Causation and Responsibility for Outcomes
from Part I - Criminal Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2022
- Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
- Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Criminal Law
- 2 Structures within Criminal Legal Reasoning
- 3 Causation and Responsibility for Outcomes
- 4 Imputation of Responsibility and Intoxicated Offending
- 5 Crimes of Endangerment
- Part II Criminal Procedure
- Part III Criminal Justice
- Index
- References
Summary
When a crime contains a result element – as, for example, the crime of homicide contains the element of a human death – the law needs to connect this result to the relevant agent. Not all crimes contain a result element; some are simply conduct offences (e.g. rape or trespass). But when there is a result element, the criminal law (from here on, we use ‘law’ to mean ‘criminal law’) uses causation as a necessary, though not sufficient, part of establishing criminal responsibility for the result.1
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- Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice , pp. 57 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022