Australian criminal laws : critical perspectives

Bernadette McSherry, Bronwyn Naylor
South Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN: 0195507908

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Book description
Australian Criminal Laws: Critical Perspectives provides a critical understanding of criminal laws. The general "principles of criminal law" have traditionally been viewed as authoritatively set out or "posited" without reference to their historical and social context. This book moves beyond that approach and through the use of detailed case studies, the foundations of criminal laws are placed in their broader context to provide perspectives on the law's development and operation, and to highlight law reform issues.

About the author
Bernadette McSherry is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. In 1999 she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching. Associate Professor McSherry's research interests criminal law, bioethics and psychiatry, psychology and the law.

Bronwyn Naylor is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. Her research interests include criminal law and criminology, crime and gender and regulation, privatisation and consumer interests.

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