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  title info:
    title: Principles of Namibian criminal law
  name:
    name part: Zongwe, Dunia P. (Dunia Prince)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cm
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Author -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Criminal law: a path to an enlightened place -- The absence of textbooks on Namibian criminal law -- Why this book? -- My debts -- Your turn -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- 1 Welcome to Criminal Law! -- 2 Aims or goals of the book -- 3 How I achieve those aims -- 4 Is this book for you? -- 5 What is in it for you? -- Chapter 2 -- The Namibian criminal justice system -- 1 Crime in Namibia -- 2 Sources of criminal law and their historical background -- 2.1 Roman-Dutch common law
  table of contents: 2.2 Case law -- 2.3 Doctrinal writings -- 2.4 International law -- 3 The impact of the Namibian Constitution on criminal law -- 4 Classification of crimes -- 5 The main actors in the criminal justice system -- 5.1 The accused -- 5.2 Police officers -- 5.3 Prosecutors -- 5.4 Lawyers -- 5.5 Judges and magistrates -- 6 The process -- 7 Criminal courts -- Chapter 3 -- Criminal law theories -- 1 In search for a theory of criminal law -- 2 What makes conduct criminal -- 3 Understanding why we criminalize -- 3.1 The guiding rationales
  table of contents: 4 The requirement of unlawfulness helps in determining what conduct to criminalize -- 5 How and when to criminalize and de-criminalize -- Chapter 4 -- Theories of punishment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Are penal theories part of substantive criminal law? -- 3 The crime, the accused, and society -- 3.1 The crime and the criminal -- 3.2 The interest of society -- 4 Classification of theories -- 5 Retribution -- 6 Prevention -- 7 Deterrence -- 8 Rehabilitation -- 9 Combining theories -- 10 Mercy -- Chapter 5 -- Criminal liability -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Models of liability -- 3 Is the accused guilty?
  table of contents: 4 The principle of legality -- 5 Conduct -- 5.1 Conduct must be voluntary -- 5.2 Act -- 5.3 Omission -- 5.4 Possession -- 6 The definitional elements -- 6.1 Intention as part of the definitional elements of culpability? -- 6.2 Classification of crimes according to their definitional elements -- 7 Unlawfulness -- 8 Culpability -- Chapter 6 -- Causation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview -- 3 The factual test -- 4 The legal test -- 4.1 Theory of adequate causation -- 4.2 The individualisation theories -- 4.3 Intervening acts -- Chapter 7 -- Unlawfulness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The basic notion
  table of contents: 3 Private defense, necessity, and consent -- 4 Official capacity -- 5 Use of force and homicide during arrest -- 5.1 Use of force -- 5.2 Homicide during arrest -- 6 Obedience to orders, chastisement, and trivialities -- 6.1 Obedience to orders -- 6.2 Disciplinary chastisement -- 6.3 Trivialities -- 7 Entrapment -- 7.1 Definition -- 7.2 Is entrapment a valid defense in Namibia? -- 7.3 Entrapment as impermissible evidence and mitigating factor -- Chapter 8 -- Private defense, necessity and consent -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Private defense -- 2.1 Definition and requirements
  note: Dunia P. Zongwe.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sx---
  subject:
    topic: Criminal law
    geographic: Namibia
  classification: KSY3800 .Z66 2022
  classification: 345.6881
  identifier: 9789956552672
  identifier: 9956552674
  identifier: 9956552178
  identifier: 9789956552177
  identifier: 22573/ctv2grdjh6 JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 220412
    record change date: 20220829135313.0
    record identifier: in00004592324