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Written by leading philosophers and lawyers from the United States and the United Kingdom, this collection of essays offers insights into the doctrines that make up the general part of the criminal law. It sheds theoretical light on the diversity and unity of the general part and advances our understanding of such key issues as criminalisation, omissions, voluntary actions, knowledge, belief, recklessness, duress, self-defence, entrapment and officially-induced mistake of law.