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Justification And Excuse, Law And Morality, Mitchell N. Berman
Justification And Excuse, Law And Morality, Mitchell N. Berman
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Anglo-American theorists of the criminal law have concentrated on-one is tempted to say "obsessed over"-the distinction between justification and excuse for a good quarter-century and the scholarly attention has purchased unusually widespread agreement. Justification defenses are said to apply when the actor's conduct was not morally wrongful; excuse defenses lie when the actor did engage in wrongful conduct but is not morally blameworthy. A near consensus thus achieved, theorists have turned to subordinate matters, joining issue most notably on the question of whether justifications are "subjective"-turning upon the actor's reasons for acting-or "objective"-involving only facts independent of the actor's beliefs …
Retribution In Criminal Theory, Douglas N. Husak
Retribution In Criminal Theory, Douglas N. Husak
San Diego Law Review
I will focus on three separate but intimately related dimensions of what I have identified as Moore's central theme. In Part H, I examine his views
about the data from which a theory of the criminal law is to be constructed. In Part I, I discuss his account of the rationale of punishment. In Part IV, I scrutinize his defense of legal moralism as a theory of legislative aim. I express general misgivings about the extraordinarily central place Moore affords retribution in his account of the criminal law as it exists today. I want to stress at the outset, however, …
Book Review. Radzinowicz, L. And Turner, J. W. C. (Eds.), The Modern Approach To Criminal Law, Jerome Hall
Book Review. Radzinowicz, L. And Turner, J. W. C. (Eds.), The Modern Approach To Criminal Law, Jerome Hall
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Some Basic Problems In Criminology, Jerome Hall
Some Basic Problems In Criminology, Jerome Hall
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