TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Kymlicka, Will; Lernestedt, Claes; Matravers, Matt
TI  - Criminal Law and Culture Diversity
SN  - 9780199676590
U1  - 345  
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Kingdom
PB  - Oxford
KW  - Law
KW  - Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - Criminal law--Social aspects
KW  - Criminal law--Philosophy
N2  - Review
Criminal Law and Cultural Diversity is an important book, and should appeal to legal and political theorists and philosophers. It fills an important gap in the field concerning the connection between criminal liability and cultural evidence. It invites us to ask some challenging questions concerning what it might mean to hold people truly responsible for crimes in the context of culturally diverse societies. ― Daniel Savery, Political Studies Review
About the Author
Will Kymlicka's work, translated into 34 languages, has focused on how democratic countries address issues of ethnic, racial and religious diversity, with a special focus on the theory and practice of multicultural citizenship. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press, including Multicultural Citizenship (1995), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). He is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.


Claes Lernestedt was educated at Stockholm University. He has written mostly in the fields of criminal law and philosophy of criminal law, with emphasis on the general part of criminal law in a broad sense. His current project addresses issues related to criminal law - not least the rules for ascription of responsibility - and mental disorder. He is Professor of Criminal Law at Uppsala University.


Matt Matravers was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science, he is one of the founding co-editors of the journal Criminal Law and Philosophy. He has written extensively on criminal law theory and the justification of punishment and on responsibility in both distributive and retributive justice. He is the editor of five books and the author of Justice and Punishment (OUP, 2000) and Responsibility and Justice (Polity 2007). He was elected to the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2012. His current project is a monograph on responsibility in the criminal law. He is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of York
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