A Crime of Self-Defense
A Crime of Self-Defense

Author: George P. Fletcher

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1990-06-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780226253343

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Legal expert George Fletcher uses the celebrated trial of New York's "Subway Vigilante", Bernhard Goetz, as a springboard to probe the profound relationship between this defensive action, the public's understanding of it, and the court's interpretation of it according to the law.

Justification Defenses and Just Convictions
Justification Defenses and Just Convictions

Author: Robert F. Schopp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-01-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0521622115

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This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defences that views them as an integral component of the structure of the criminal law. A definition of criminal law is included in this book.