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People Of The State Of Illinois Vs. John Gacy: The Functioning Of The Insanity Defense At The Limits Of The Criminal Law, Donald H.J. Herman, Helen L. Morrison, Yvonne Sor, Julie A. Norman, David M. Neff
People Of The State Of Illinois Vs. John Gacy: The Functioning Of The Insanity Defense At The Limits Of The Criminal Law, Donald H.J. Herman, Helen L. Morrison, Yvonne Sor, Julie A. Norman, David M. Neff
West Virginia Law Review
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Criminal Liability For Omissions: A Brief Summary And Critique Of The Law In The United States, Paul H. Robinson
Criminal Liability For Omissions: A Brief Summary And Critique Of The Law In The United States, Paul H. Robinson
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Criminal liability for an omission is imposed in two distinct situations. First, such liability is often imposed explicitly in offense definitions that punish a failure to perform certain conduct. For example, it is an offense to fail to file a tax return. Second, it is also common for a general provision, apart from an offense definition, to create omission liability for an offense defined in commission terms. Parents, for example, are generally given the legal duty to care for their children. A parent may be held liable for criminal homicide, then, where death results from a failure to perform this …
The Perplexing Borders Of Justification And Excuse, Kent Greenawalt
The Perplexing Borders Of Justification And Excuse, Kent Greenawalt
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This Article's central theme is that Anglo-American criminal law should not attempt to distinguish between justification and excuse in a fully systematic way. I explore three possible bases for drawing the distinction: (1) a distinction between warranted and wrongful conduct; (2) a division between general and individual claims; and (3) a distinction based on the rights of others. I show why none of these bases yields a clear and simple criterion for categorization. The difficulty rests largely on the conceptual fuzziness of the terms ''justification" and "excuse" in ordinary usage and on the uneasy quality of many of the moral …