Author: John Cyril SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law
Author: John Cyril SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law
Author: John DeighPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195314859
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This title contains 17 original essays by leading thinkers in the field and covers the field's major topics including limits to criminalization, obscenity and hate speech, blackmail, the law of rape, attempts, accomplice liability, causation responsibility, justification and excuse, duress, and more.
Criminal Law in Poland
Author: Wojciech JasińskiPublisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN: 9403513608
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a practical analysis of criminal law in Poland. An introduction presents the necessary background information about the framework and sources of the criminal justice system, and then proceeds to a detailed examination of the grounds for criminal liability, the justification of criminal offences, the defences that diminish or excuse criminal liability, the classification of criminal offences, and the sanctions system. Coverage of criminal procedure focuses on the organization of investigations, pre-trial proceedings, trial stage, and legal remedies. A final part describes the execution of sentences and orders, the prison system, and the extinction of custodial sanctions or sentences. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for criminal lawyers, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and criminal court judges handling cases connected with Poland. Academics and researchers, as well as the various international organizations in the field, will welcome this very useful guide, and will appreciate its value in the study of comparative criminal law.
Rethinking Criminal Law
Author: George P. FletcherPublisher:
ISBN: 9780195136951
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
This is a reprint of a book first published by Little, Brown in 1978. George Fletcher is working on a new edition which will be published by OUP in three volumes, the first of which is scheduled to appear in January 2001. Rethinking Criminal Law is still perhaps the most influential and often cited theoretical work on American criminal law. This reprint will keep this classic work available until the new edition can be published.
Modern Criminal Law
Author: Wayne R. LaFaveMoral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities
Author: Heidi M. HurdPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131651045X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Engages with the life and work of Larry Alexander to explore puzzles and paradoxes in legal and moral theory.
The Insanity Defense
Author: Richard MoranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal intent
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Rationale-Based Defences in Criminal Law
Author: Mark DsouzaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509902961
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK “Despite the existing scholarly literature on criminal defences, many issues remain contested or unresolved. Dr Dsouza offers a thorough and scholarly treatment of a complex topic which can be expected to become a point of reference for future work in the field.” Professor James Chalmers, University of Glasgow “Mark Dsouza has produced an engaging, incisive and cogently argued monograph, that makes an original contribution to criminal law theory. Required reading for scholars and graduate students working on criminal law defences.” Professor Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham Although it is often accepted that rationale-based defences to criminal liability can be justificatory or excusatory, disagreements about how best to conceptualise the categories of justification and excuse have appeared so interminable that some theorists argue that they should be abandoned altogether. This book offers a novel, principled, and intuitively appealing conceptual account of the natures of justifications and excuses, showing how they differ, and why the distinction between them matters. The monograph breaks new ground by defending a model of rationale-based defences that turns solely on the quality of the defendant's reasoning. This model is shown to generate appealing liability outcomes, advance convincing solutions to questions that have puzzled criminal lawyers for years, and offer suggestions for doctrinal reform that are both normatively sound, and practical. By proposing new ways to think about defences, this book makes an original contribution to criminal law theory that will be of benefit to academics, practitioners, and persons interested in law reform.
Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State
Author: Vincent ChiaoPublisher:
ISBN: 0190273941
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Criminal law as public law 1: context -- Criminal law as public law 2: structure -- Criminal law as public law 3: content -- Mass incarceration and the theory of punishment -- Criminal law in the age of the administrative state -- Formalism and pragmatism in criminal procedure -- Responsibility without resentment
The Mind of the Criminal
Author: Reid Griffith FontainePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513766
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Discusses the excusing nature of traditional and non-traditional criminal law defenses and questions the structure of these based on scientific findings.