Criminal Law and Cultural Diversity

by Kymlicka, Will; Lernestedt, Claes; Matravers, Matt

• ISBN13: 9780199676590
• ISBN10: 0199676593
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-07-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University,Claes Lernestedt, Professor of Criminal Law, Uppsala University,Matt Matravers, Director of the School of PEP and Director, Morrell Centre for Toleration, University of York

Will Kymlicka's work, translated into 34 languages, has focused on how democratic countries address issues of ethnic, racial and religious diversity, with a special focus on the theory and practice of multicultural citizenship. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press, including Multicultural Citizenship (1995), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). He is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.


Claes Lernestedt was educated at Stockholm University. He has written mostly in the fields of criminal law and philosophy of criminal law, with emphasis on the general part of criminal law in a broad sense. His current project addresses issues related to criminal law - not least the rules for ascription of responsibility - and mental disorder. He is Professor of Criminal Law at Uppsala University.


Matt Matravers was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science, he is one of the founding co-editors of the journal Criminal Law and Philosophy. He has written extensively on criminal law theory and the justification of punishment and on responsibility in both distributive and retributive justice. He is the editor of five books and the author of Justice and Punishment (OUP, 2000) and Responsibility and Justice (Polity 2007). He was elected to the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2012. His current project is a monograph on responsibility in the criminal law. He is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of York.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Will Kymlicka, Claes Lernestedt and Matt Matravers
2. Criminal Law and Culture, Claes Lernestedt
3. Culture and Criminalization, Nicola Lacey
4. Between Denial and Recognition: Criminal Law and Cultural Diversity, Kimmo Nuotio
5. Responsibility, Morality, and Culture, Matt Matravers
6. Cultural Defense and the Criminal Law, Bhikhu Parekh
7. Family Matters: Is there Room for 'Culture' in the Courtroom?, Ayelet Shachar
8. The Cultural Defense: Reflections in Light of the Model Penal Code and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Kent Greenawalt
9. What Do We Have to Fear from the Cultural Defense?, Alison Dundes Renteln