Justice, Liability, And Blame - Community Views And The Criminal Law (Hardcover)

Drafters of legal codes often implicitly or explicitly seek to incorporate community standards. To what extent have they succeeded? This book examines shared intuitive notions of justice among laypersons and compares the discovered principles to those instantiated in current American criminal codes. After discussion of the proper role of community views in formulating legal doctrine, Robinson and Darley report eighteen original studies on a wide range of issues in dispute among legal theorists. The authors compare lay intuitions and code provisions on such questions as the justified use of force, insanity, causation, complicity, risk-creation, omission liability, culpability requirements, duress, entrapment, multiple offenses, and criminalization matters such as felony-murder and sexual offenses. Many important differences between the legal code and community views are found, and the authors discuss the implications of those differences. One implication is the possibility that such conflicts could lead to reduced compliance as the code loses its moral authority with the community.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2019
First published:	1995
Authors:	Paul H Robinson
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	326
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-00995-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	0-367-00995-1
Barcode:	9780367009953

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