Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order by Lindsay Farmer - 9780521553209

Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal OrderCrime and the Genius of Scots Law, 1747 to the Present\nAuthor(s): Lindsay Farmer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521553209, 978-0521553209\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the relationship between legal tradition and national identity to offer a critical and historical perspective on the study of criminal law. It develops a radically different approach to questions of responsibility and subjectivity, and was among the first studies to combine appreciation of the institutional and historical context in which criminal law is practised with a critical understanding of the law itself. Applying contemporary social theory to the particular case of nineteenth-century Scottish law, Lindsay Farmer is able to develop a critique of modern criminal law theory in general. He traces the development of the modern characteristics of criminal law and legal order, tracing th.