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Drugs And Criminal Responsibility, Edward H. Benton, Andrew Bor, William H. Leech, Joyce A. Levy, Samuel D. Lipshie, Thomas B. Mitchell, Gary M. Brown

Vanderbilt Law Review

This Special Project has carried out three broad purposes.First, it has synthesized and organized materials concerning drugs and criminal responsibility into a useful guide for legal practitioners and others interested in the problems of the drug dependent defendant. Second, it has identified serious analytical flaws in many of the defenses available to the criminal defendant. Finally,it has responded to these deficiencies with proposals intended to protect not only the legal rights of the drug dependent defendant but also the rights of society pertaining to criminal justice. While these societal interests include the swift imposition of criminal penalties when warranted, they …