Criminal Law Stories

Criminal Law Stories

Author: Donna Coker

Publisher: Foundation Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781599414393

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Softbound - New, softbound print book.


The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law

Author: John Deigh

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-09-22

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 0195314859

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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.


A Philosophy of Criminal Attempts

A Philosophy of Criminal Attempts

Author: Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 110702983X

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Extends and adapts G. E. M. Anscombe's philosophy to reveal attempting as a subjective species of intentional action. Locates criminal attempts therein.


Attempts

Attempts

Author: Gideon Yaffe

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-11-29

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0191642231

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Gideon Yaffe presents a ground-breaking work which demonstrates the importance of philosophy of action for the law. Many people are serving sentences not for completing crimes, but for trying to. So the law governing attempted crimes is of practical as well as theoretical importance. Questions arising in the adjudication of attempts intersect with questions in the philosophy of action, such as what intention a person must have, if any, and what a person must do, if anything, to be trying to act. Yaffe offers solutions to the difficult problems courts face in the adjudication of attempted crimes. He argues that the problems courts face admit of principled solution through reflection either on what it is to try to do something; or on what evidence is required for someone to be shown to have tried to do something; or on what sentence for an attempt is fair given the close relation between attempts and completions. The book argues that to try to do something is to be committed by one's intention to each of the components of success and to be guided by those commitments. Recognizing the implications of this simple and plausible position helps us to identify principled grounds on which the courts ought to distinguish between defendants charged with attempted crimes.


General Principles of Criminal Law

General Principles of Criminal Law

Author: Jerome Hall

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1584774983

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"The Most Important Treatise on Criminal Law Produced by American Legal Scholarship" First published to great acclaim in 1947, Hall's General Principles of Criminal Law is one of the undisputed classics in its field. It provides more than a broad overview. Drawing on his expertise in jurisprudence and the work of the legal realists, it analyzes the principles that comprise criminal activity with an emphasis on its creation and definition by officials. This process is explored in the chapters on criminology, criminal theory and penal theory and, in more specific terms, the chapters on legality, mens rea, harm, causation, punishment, strict liability, ignorance and mistake, necessity and coercion, mental disease, intoxication and criminal attempt. "For many years, our standard work on criminal law has been Bishop's. First published in 1856, Bishop's is the only American book in the field that has conspicuously influenced our criminal law. (...) When Jerome Hall's, General Principles of Criminal Law (1947) appeared, it represented the first significant effort to articulate the principles of criminal law since Bishop's era. Hall's work may, in fact, represent the most important treatise on criminal law produced by American legal scholarship." --Fred Cohen, Journal of Legal Education 16 (1963-64) 260.


Reflections on Crime and Culpability

Reflections on Crime and Culpability

Author: Larry Alexander

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1107159946

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Through one coherent retributivist vision of the criminal law, this book explores under examined problems within criminal law theory.