Justice, Liability, And Blame
Community Views And The Criminal Law
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 29. March 1995
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8133-2450-0 (ISBN)
Description
Do lay judgements of criminal transgressions often conflict with the way cases are judged within the legal code? If so, what impact do the discrepancies in judgement have on the community governed by that legal code? This book sets out to answer these questions. Analyzing a series of studies, it compares lay opinion and code provisions on issues such as the justified use of force, insanity, accusation, complicity, risk-creation, omission liability, culpability requirements, duress, entrapment, multiple offences, and criminalization matters cush as felony murder and sexual offences. It uncovers significant differences in how various transgressions are judged within the criminal code and how they are judged by ordinary people living in the affected communities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-2450-0 (9780813324500)
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Content
Community views and the criminal law; doctrines of criminalization - what conduct should be criminal?; doctrines of justification - when should it be lawful to engage in conduct that normally would constitute a violation?; doctrines of culpability - when is violation of a legal rule blameworthy?; doctrines of excuse - when is violation of a legal rule blameless?