Paul H. Robinson, Tyler Scot Williams

Mapping American Criminal Law (eBook, PDF)

Variations across the 50 States

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Containing 40 visually coded maps of the fifty states, this book offers an unprecedented look at America's diverse legal landscape.

This first-of-its-kind volume sketches the diversity implicit in United States criminal law doctrine through its examination of a range of criminal laws pertaining to murder, sexual assault, drug offenses, the insanity defense, and more and the way in which different states deal with those issues. In addition to providing insights into the most widely invoked standards in criminal law, it raises awareness of the enormous discrepancies among the criminal laws of states, documenting them using dozens of visually coded maps that showcase geographic, political, and socioeconomic differences to explain patterns of agreement and disagreement. Mapping American Criminal Law: Variations Across the 50 States is for political scientists, criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars, policy advisors, legislators, lawyers, judges, and scholars and students of these fields. In addition, each chapter is highly accessible to laypersons and includes an explanation of the subject matter as well as explanations of the various approaches to criminal law taken by states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440860133
• Artikelnr.: 68251314

Autorenporträt

Paul H. Robinson is the Colin S. Diver Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and one of the world's leading criminal law scholars.

Tyler Scot Williams is an associate at a large law firm in Washington DC. He holds a juris doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and masters degrees in philosophy, medical ethics, and theology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Part One Preliminary Issues: Punishment Theory and
Legality Chapter 1 Distributive Principles of Criminal Law Chapter 2
Habitual Offender Statutes Chapter 3 Death Penalty Chapter 4 Legality
Requirement Part Two Homicide Chapter 5 Provocation/Extreme Emotional
Disturbance Chapter 6 Felony Murder Chapter 7 Causation Part Three
Liability Doctrines Chapter 8 Transferred Intent Chapter 9 Consent to
Injury Chapter 10 Mental Illness and Culpability Chapter 11 Attempt
Chapter 12 Complicity Chapter 13 Complicity Liability of Coconspirators
Part Four Justification Defenses Chapter 14 Lesser Evils/Necessity Defense
Chapter 15 Self-Defense Chapter 16 Law Enforcement Authority Part Five
Excuse Defenses Chapter 17 Insanity Defense Chapter 18 Immaturity Defense
Part Six Nonexculpatory Defenses Chapter 19 Statute of Limitations Chapter
20 Exclusionary Rule Chapter 21 Entrapment Defense Part Seven Offenses
against the Person and Property Chapter 22 Criminalizing Risk Creation
Chapter 23 Statutory Rape Chapter 24 Domestic Violence Chapter 25 Stalking
and Harassment Chapter 26 Child Neglect Chapter 27 Deceptive Business
Practices Chapter 28 Extortion Part Eight Public Order and Decency Offenses
Chapter 29 Adultery Chapter 30 Criminal Obscenity Chapter 31 Child
Pornography Part Nine Offenses against the Community Chapter 32 Drug
Offenses Chapter 33 Firearms Possession Offenses Chapter 34 Predatory
Pricing Chapter 35 Organized Crime Chapter 36 Fixing Sporting Events Part
Ten Procedural Issues Chapter 37 Extradition Chapter 38 Jurisdiction Index