Table Of Contents:
Introduction and Thematic Break Up;
A Key to Understanding the Twelve Writings;
Part A - HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF WESTERN AND INDIAN CRIMINAL LAW/SYSTEMS;
I. History of the English and the Roman Criminal Law;
II. History and Early Evolution of the English Criminal Law;
III. History and Evolution of the Indian Criminal Law: Motivations, Structure of the Indian Penal Code;
IV. Penal Code as the Rationalised Criminal Law in the Early Colonial and Pre-independence India;
Part B - THE ELEMENTS AND ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LAW/LIABILITY;
V. The “Actus Reus” Element;
VI. The Mens Rea or Guilty-mind Element;
Part C - THE CRITIQUES OF THE FORMAL CRIMINAL LAW SYSTEM AND ITS RESURRECTION;
VII. Growing Critiques of the Formal Criminal Law System in the Western World;
VIII. Evaluations of the Critical Criminal Law Writing;
IX. Indicators of Resurrection of the Formal Criminal Law Systems in the West and in India;
Part D - THE FORGOTTEN AND IGNORED PREMISE OF THE PROCESSUAL JUSTICE;
X. Rationalising the Pre-Trial Processes in India;
XI. Strivings for the Creation of Enabling Justicing Conditions;
XII. Interlocking Nature of the Procedural Due Process and the Constitutional Due Process;
Glossary of the Legal and Colloquial Terms used in the Writings;
Subject Index.