Fitness to Plead: International and Comparative Perspectives

by Warren Brookbanks

The law relating to fitness to plead is an increasingly important area of the criminal law. While criminalization may be justified whenever an offender commits a sufficiently serious moral wrong requiring that he or she be called to account, the doctrine of fitness to plead calls this principle into question in the case of a person who lacks the capacity or ability to participate meaningfully in a criminal trial. In light of the emerging focus on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198788479
• ISBN13: 9780198788478
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"