Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law

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Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law (originally published as Outlines of Criminal Law) was a criminal law textbook published from 1902 to 1966 by Cambridge University Press. It was originally written by the jurist and academic Courtney Stanhope Kenny, and it was updated for the 14th and 15th editions by G. Godfrey Phillips, and then re-written for its 16th to 19th editions by J. W. Cecil Turner.

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The work offered a systematic and principled treatment of English criminal law, intended for students and practitioners, and it became one of the standard texts in the field during the first half of the twentieth century. [1]

History

Development

The first thirteen editions (1902–1929) of Outlines were written entirely by Kenny himself. [2]

After Kenny's death in 1930, G. Godfrey Phillips revised the 14th and 15th editions as Kenny's Outlines, updating statutory and case references while keeping the original structure. [3]

From 1952 to 1966, J. W. Cecil Turner produced the 16th to 19th editions. His 16th edition was described by the Cambridge Law Journal as "an entirely new edition... the book is now his rather than Kenny's". [4] Turner reorganized the material on mens rea, homicide, and property offences, and integrated mid-twentieth-century statutory developments. [5] Subsequent editions maintained his structure with minor updates. [6]

Decline

The work lost its dominant status in English legal education between the late 1960s and the 1980s. Turner died in 1968 [7] and no successor editor was appointed by Cambridge University Press, leaving the text static. [8]

By the 1970s, there had been extensive statutory reform of the criminal law, which rendered much of the 19th edition obsolete. [9] New textbooks filled the vacuum, including Smith and Hogan's Criminal Law and Glanville Williams’s Textbook of Criminal Law , which provided up-to-date analysis, integration of statutory developments, and discussion of legal policy. [10] [11]

By the early 1980s, Kenny’s Outlines was a historical and bibliographic source rather than a contemporary doctrinal authority. [8]

Editions

US editions

Influence

Outlines of Criminal Law established itself as the leading academic text in English criminal law teaching for decades. It helped to shift the subject from a practitioner’s manual to an academic discipline concerned with general principles and moral foundations. [33] Turner’s later editions reflected the movement toward a more analytical and positivist style of legal scholarship. The work’s influence continued in Commonwealth jurisdictions until the rise of newer comprehensive criminal law texts in the 1970s. [34]

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References

  1. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1847–1930)", Oxford University Press.
  2. ↑ C. S. Kenny, Outlines of Criminal Law, Cambridge University Press, 1902–1929 (title pages of editions 1–13).
  3. ↑ Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 5 (1936), review of the 15th edition revised by G. Godfrey Phillips.
  4. ↑ Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 11 (1953), p. 84.
  5. ↑ Modern Law Review, Vol. 15 (1952), p. 609.
  6. ↑ Cambridge University Press catalogues (1958, 1962, 1966).
  7. ↑ Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 27 (1969), p. 5 (obituary note on Turner).
  8. 1 2 J. H. Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vol. XI (Oxford University Press, 2010), §12.32.
  9. ↑ Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 25 (1967), review of the 19th ed. of Kenny’s Outlines of Criminal Law
  10. ↑ J. C. Smith and B. Hogan, Criminal Law (Butterworths, 1965).
  11. ↑ G. Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law (Stevens & Sons, 1978).
  12. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1902). Outlines of Criminal Law (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  13. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1904). Outlines of Criminal Law (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  14. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1907). Outlines of Criminal Law (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  15. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1909). Outlines of Criminal Law (4th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  16. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1911). Outlines of Criminal Law (5th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  17. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1914). Outlines of Criminal Law (6th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  18. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1915). Outlines of Criminal Law (7th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  19. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1917). Outlines of Criminal Law (8th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  20. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1918). Outlines of Criminal Law (9th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  21. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1920). Outlines of Criminal Law (10th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  22. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1922). Outlines of Criminal Law (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  23. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1926). Outlines of Criminal Law (12th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  24. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1929). Outlines of Criminal Law (13th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  25. ↑ Phillips, G. Godfrey (1933). Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law (14th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  26. ↑ Phillips, G. Godfrey (1936). Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law (15th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  27. ↑ Turner, J. W. Cecil (1952). Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law (16th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  28. ↑ Turner, J. W. Cecil (1958). Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law (17th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  29. ↑ Turner, J. W. Cecil (1962). Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781107675919.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  30. ↑ Turner, J. W. Cecil (1966). Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law (19th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781107675933.
  31. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1913). Outlines of Criminal Law (1st (American ed.) ed.). The Macmillan Company, New York.
  32. ↑ Kenny, Courtney Stanhope (1922). Outlines of Criminal Law (2nd (American ed.) ed.). The Macmillan Company, New York.
  33. ↑ J. H. Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vol. XI (Oxford University Press, 2010), §12.32.
  34. ↑ Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 32 (1954), p. 124.
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