Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law

Herausgeber: Christopher, Russell

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume collects, for the first time, a selection of criminal law scholar George Fletcher's most famous previously published shorter works as well as some that are less known but equally important. Each of the twelve essays by Fletcher is paired with one or more new critical commentaries on that essay. These critical commentaries trace the impact of the respective essay in the development of the criminal law and assess its future significance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780199941230
• ISBN-10: 0199941238
• Artikelnr.: 35565547

Autorenporträt

Russell Christopher is Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law where he teaches and writes primarily in criminal law and theory

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction and Overview
1. Introduction: Russell Christopher
2. The Nature and Function of Criminal Theory
3. Comment: Kyron Huigens
Punishment
4. What Is Punishment Imposed For?
5. Comment: Doug Husak
6. Punishment and Compensation
7. Comment: John Gardner
Mens Rea and Mistake
8. The Fault of Not
9. Comment: Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
10. Mistake in the Model Penal Code: A False False Problem
11. Comment: Heidi Hurd
Justification and Excuse
12. Individualization of Excusing Conditions
13. Comment: Susan Estrich
14. The Right and the Reasonable
15. Comment: Victoria Nourse
16. The Nature of Justification
17. Comment: Peter Westen
18. The Psychotic Aggressor-A Generation Later
19. Comment: Alon Harel
20. Domination in the Theory of Justification and Excuse
21. Comment: Joshua Dressler
Domination and Protection of Victims
22. Blackmail: The Paradigmatic Crime
23. Comment: Judge John T. Noonan, Jr.
24. Comment: Alan Wertheimer
25. Justice and Fairness in the Protection of Crime Victims
26. Comment: Stephen Schulhofer
George Fletcher Replies to His Critics
27. Remembrance of Articles Past