Excusing Crime

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When should someone who may have intentionally or knowingly committed criminal wrongdoing be excused? Excusing Crime examines what excusing conditions are, and why familiar excuses, such as duress, are thought to fulfil those conditions. Jeremy Horder argues that a wider range of excuses - 'diminished capacity', 'due diligence' and 'demands of conscience' - should be recognised in law.