Mapping American Criminal Law Variations across the 50 States
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.
What Robinson and Williams do especially well is provide a balance between the theoretical foundation necessary to best understand criminal law and numerous examples of how each issue is worthy of further study. For those interested in understanding criminal law and beyond, this book is invaluable. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.
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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.
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
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.