A Modern View of the Criminal Law
Author | : Stanley Walter Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stanley Walter Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Markus D Dubber |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2014-08-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0191654620 |
Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. It examines the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by documenting its intellectual and disciplinary history and provides a snapshot of contemporary work on criminal law within that historical and comparative context. Criminal law discourse has become, and will continue to become, more international and comparative, and in this sense global: the long-standing parochialism of criminal law scholarship and doctrine is giving way to a broad exploration of the foundations of modern criminal law. The present book advances this promising scholarly and doctrinal project by making available key texts, including several not previously available in English translation, from the common law and civil law traditions, accompanied by contributions from leading representatives of both systems.
Author | : Lindsay Farmer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199568642 |
The fifth book in the series offers an historical and conceptual account of the criminal law, as it has developed in England and spread to common law jurisdictions around the world. It traces how and why criminal law has come to be accorded with a central role in securing civil order in modernity, and justifies who and what should be treated as criminal under the law. Farmer argues that the emergence of the modern state in which criminal law is recognized as an instrument of government is a result of the distinct body of rules which have emerged from the modern criminal law.
Author | : Wayne R. LaFave |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 988 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. W. Stewart |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1483136698 |
A Modern View of the Criminal Law explains the nature of criminal law and classifies the leading crimes in English law. This book describes the application of the criminal law both in private life and as it may affect the public or public authority. Organized into four parts encompassing 23 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the fundamental principles and purposes of the criminal law. This text then examines the deterrent theory, which is regarded by some legal thinkers to be the most important function of criminal justice. Other chapters consider the common breakdown of crime into indictable and summary offenses, which broadly makes a distinction between minor and serious violations of the law. This book discusses as well the classification of the law of crime as a whole. The final chapter deals with the reforms in various areas of criminal law. This book is a valuable resource for lawyers.
Author | : S. W. Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Criminal law |
ISBN | : 9780080129709 |
Author | : George P. Fletcher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1998-09-03 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199729212 |
In the United States today criminal justice can vary from state to state, as various states alter the Modern Penal Code to suit their own local preferences and concerns. In Eastern Europe, the post-Communist countries are quickly adopting new criminal codes to reflect their specific national concerns as they gain autonomy from what was once a centralized Soviet policy. As commonalities among countries and states disintegrate, how are we to view the basic concepts of criminal law as a whole? Eminent legal scholar George Fletcher acknowledges that criminal law is becoming increasingly localized, with every country and state adopting their own conception of punishable behavior, determining their own definitions of offenses. Yet by taking a step back from the details and linguistic variations of the criminal codes, Fletcher is able to perceive an underlying unity among diverse systems of criminal justice. Challenging common assumptions, he discovers a unity that emerges not on the surface of statutory rules and case law but in the underlying debates that inform them. Basic Concepts of Criminal Law identifies a set of twelve distinctions that shape and guide the controversies that inevitably break out in every system of criminal justice. Devoting a chapter to each of these twelve concepts, Fletcher maps out what he considers to be the deep structure of all systems of criminal law. Understanding these distinctions will not only enable students to appreciate the universal fundamental ideas of criminal law, but will enable them to understand the significance of local details and variations. This accessible illustration of the unity of diverse systems of criminal justice will provoke and inform students and scholars of law and the philosophy of law, as well as lawyers seeking a better understanding of the law they practice.
Author | : James R. Acker |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Publishers |
Total Pages | : 693 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0763795208 |
"Provides a comprehensive introduction to the rules and principles of criminal procedure law. This text uses a case study approach with a focus on the U.S. Supreme Court to help readers develop the analytical skills necessary to understand the origins, context, and evolution of the law. With an emphasis on federal constitutional law, all cases and accompanying discussions have been updated throughout"--P. [4] of cover.
Author | : Thomas Vormbaum |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 3642372732 |
Increasingly, international governmental networks and organisations make it necessary to master the legal principles of other jurisdictions. Since the advent of international criminal tribunals this need has fully reached criminal law. A large part of their work is based on comparative research. The legal systems which contribute most to this systemic discussion are common law and civil law, sometimes called continental law. So far this dialogue appears to have been dominated by the former. While there are many reasons for this, one stands out very clearly: Language. English has become the lingua franca of international legal research. The present book addresses this issue. Thomas Vormbaum is one of the foremost German legal historians and the book's original has become a cornerstone of research into the history of German criminal law beyond doctrinal expositions; it allows a look at the system’s genesis, its ideological, political and cultural roots. In the field of comparative research, it is of the utmost importance to have an understanding of the law’s provenance, in other words its historical DNA.
Author | : James Fitzjames Stephen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Criminal law |
ISBN | : |