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Who Controls Criminal Law? Racial Threat and the Adoption of State Sentencing Law, 1975 to 2012
, 2020Threat theory argues that states toughen criminal laws to repress the competitive power of large minority groups. Yet, research on threat suffers from a poor understanding of why minority group size contributes to social control and a lack of evidence on
Scott W. Duxbury
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Religious conservatism, Islamic criminal law and the judiciary in Indonesia: a tale of three courts
Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2018This article discusses three Indonesian court cases decided in 2017 in which the interests of conservative Muslims were supported. In the first, the Constitutional Court was asked to expand the definition of various moral offences in the Criminal Code in
S. Butt
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, 2018
We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered ...
R. Duff
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We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered ...
R. Duff
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Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1987
AIDS is spread by acts, not by casual exposure. As AIDS spreads further, some are urging that those acts, including sexual acts, be treated as crimes. Indeed, two AIDS carriers have already been charged with crimes for risking sexual transmission of AIDS to others. In one case, the United States Army has court-martialed an infected soldier, Pfc. Adrian
M A, Field, K M, Sullivan
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AIDS is spread by acts, not by casual exposure. As AIDS spreads further, some are urging that those acts, including sexual acts, be treated as crimes. Indeed, two AIDS carriers have already been charged with crimes for risking sexual transmission of AIDS to others. In one case, the United States Army has court-martialed an infected soldier, Pfc. Adrian
M A, Field, K M, Sullivan
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Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State
, 2018What is the criminal law for? At its most elemental, criminal law secures the possibility of a shared life under stable and just public institutions.
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University of Toronto Law Journal, 2011
Alan Brudner has produced a rare and beautiful work of scholarship. Drawing inspiration from Hegel, he provides us with a comprehensive and novel theory of the criminal law. This review article has two parts. The first gives an overview of Brudner's theory.
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Alan Brudner has produced a rare and beautiful work of scholarship. Drawing inspiration from Hegel, he provides us with a comprehensive and novel theory of the criminal law. This review article has two parts. The first gives an overview of Brudner's theory.
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Medicine, Science and the Law, 1992
Automatic episodes of aggressive or violent behaviour may occur during or after an epileptic fit. Epileptic automatisms are regarded by the law as ‘insane automatisms’. A person who commits a crime during the course of a seizure is therefore legally insane and must be committed to a psychiatric hospital.
G M, Paul, K W, Lange
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Automatic episodes of aggressive or violent behaviour may occur during or after an epileptic fit. Epileptic automatisms are regarded by the law as ‘insane automatisms’. A person who commits a crime during the course of a seizure is therefore legally insane and must be committed to a psychiatric hospital.
G M, Paul, K W, Lange
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Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law
, 2016Principles of Criminal Law takes a distinctly different approach to the study of criminal law, whilst still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses.
Jeremy Horder
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NARCOANALYSIS AND CRIMINAL LAW
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1954Criminal suspects, while under the influence of barbiturate drugs, may deliberately withhold information, persist in giving untruthful answers, or falsely confess to crimes they have not committed. Narcoanalysis is of doubtful value when used for the purpose of obtaining confessions to crimes.
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Analysis, 1994
According to Judith Jarvis Thomson ([11, p. If.), there are many rights that we have against others prior to the law recognizing those rights. And if the law did not recognize them we should still have them. However, she says, the law does recognize many of them. Indeed, according to Thomson, the law actually assigns these rights to us. 'For example, I
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According to Judith Jarvis Thomson ([11, p. If.), there are many rights that we have against others prior to the law recognizing those rights. And if the law did not recognize them we should still have them. However, she says, the law does recognize many of them. Indeed, according to Thomson, the law actually assigns these rights to us. 'For example, I
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