Consumer Protection and the Criminal Law: Law, Theory, and Policy in the UK

by Peter Cartwright

• ISBN13: 9780521590808
• ISBN10: 0521590809
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The nature of criminal law doctrines such as strict, corporate, and vicarious liability, and suggests that such doctrines require re-evaluation in the light of the reality of the corporate entity. This study will be of interest to academics, undergraduate and post-graduate students and practitioners.inciples of each device's operation and presents a block circuit diagram. Next he analyzes these 'real world' circuits in detail, and, finally, he discusses the present state-of-the-art. This approach will help to integrate the many different aspects of an electrical engineer's course work, from physical optics to digital signal processing, as never before. Very accessible and containing over 350 illustrations and many exercises.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
List of abbreviations	xiii
Consumer protection rationales	1	(39)
Techniques of regulation	40	(23)
The role of criminal sanctions in consumer protection	63	(24)
The use of the criminal law	87	(39)
Consumers and safety: the protection of physical integrity	126	(30)
The protection of economic interests	156	(56)
The enforcement of regulatory consumer law	212	(32)
Conclusions	244	(6)
Index	250