The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law reflects the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, providing scholars with a comprehensive international resource, a common point of entry into cutting edge contemporary research and a snapshot of the state and scope of the field. To this end, the Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter, disciplinarily, geographically, and systematically. Its contributors include current and future research leaders representing a variety of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise, and research agendas.

The Handbook is divided into four parts: Approaches & Methods (I), Systems & Methods (II), Aspects & Issues (III), and Contexts & Comparisons (IV). Part I includes essays exploring various methodological approaches to criminal law (such as criminology, feminist studies, and history). Part II provides an overview of systems or models of criminal law, laying the foundation for further inquiry into specific conceptions of criminal law as well as for comparative analysis (such as Islamic, Marxist, and military law). Part III covers the three aspects of the penal process: the definition of norms and principles of liability (substantive criminal law), along with a less detailed treatment of the imposition of norms (criminal procedure) and the infliction of sanctions (prison or corrections law). Contributors consider the basic topics traditionally addressed in scholarship on the general and special parts of the substantive criminal law (such as jurisdiction, mens rea, justifications, and excuses). Part IV places criminal law in context, both domestically and transnationally, by exploring the contrasts between criminal law and other species of law and state power and by investigating criminal law's place in the projects of comparative law, transnational, and international law.

Markus D Dubber, Professor of Law, University of Toronto,Tatjana Hornle, Professor of Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, and Penal Philosophy, Humboldt University

Markus D. Dubber is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto.

Tatjana Hornle is Professor of Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, and Penal Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin.

Introduction
I. Approaches & Methods
1. Criminology, Mariana Valverde and Pat O'Malley
2. Critical Race Theory, Bennett Capers
3. Economics, Talia Fisher
4. Feminist Studies, Prabha Kotiswaran
5. History, James Whitman
6. Literature, Simon Stern
7. Philosophy, Leo Zaibert
8. Sociology, Shai Lavi and Galia Schneebaum
9. Technology, Mireille Hildebrandt
II. Systems & Models
10. Canon Law, Heikki Pihlajamaki and Mia Korpiola
11. Indigenous Law, Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland
12. Islamic Law, Sylvia Tellenbach
13. Jewish Law, Arnold Enker
14. Marxist & Soviet Law, Stephen Thaman
15. Military Law, Rain Liivoja
III. Aspects & Issues
A. Foundations
16. Theories of Crime and Punishment, Emmanuel Melissaris
17. Codification, Lindsay Farmer
18. Jurisdiction, Alejandro Chehtman
19. Constitutional Principles, Benjamin Berger
B. Substantive Criminal Law
(i) General Part
20. Actus Reus, Vincent Chiao
21. Causation, Carl-Friedrich Stuckenberg
22. Mens Rea, Thomas Weigend
23. Inchoate Offenses, Michael Cahill
24. Complicity, James Stewart
25. Corporate Criminal Liability, Susanne Beck
26. Necessity and Duress, Ulf Neumann
27. Self-Defense, Victoria Nourse
28. Consent, Vera Bergelson
29. Insanity and Intoxication, Christoph Safferling
(ii) Special Part
30. Rechtsgut and the Harm Principle, Tatjana Hornle
31. Offenses Against the Person: Homicide, Guyora Binder
32. Offenses Against the Person: Assault, James Chalmers
33. Offenses Against Sexual Autonomy, Vanessa Munro
34. Offenses Against Property, Stuart Green
35. Drug Offenses, Beatrice Brunhober
36. Terrorism, Kent Roach
37. 'White Collar' Crimes, Sam Buell
38. Public Welfare Offenses, Darryl Brown
C. Criminal Process
39. Models of the Criminal Process, Maximo Langer
40. Discretion, Frank Meyer
D. Criminal Sanctions
41. Types of Punishment, Nora Demleitner
42. Sentencing, Erik Luna
43. Prison Law, Dirk van Zyl Smit
IV. Contexts & Comparisons
A. Province of Criminal Law
44. Paradigms of Penal Law, Markus D Dubber
45. Public Law and Private Law, Alon Harel
46. Regulatory Offenses and Administrative Sanctions, Daniel Ohana
B. Beyond Domestic Criminal Law
47. Comparative Criminal Law, Luis Chiesa
48. European Criminal Law, Kimmo Nuotio
49. International Criminal Law, Elies van Sliedregt