Criminal Law

by Guyora Binder

Book Overview

Many controversies in American criminal law reflect the tension between older and newer conceptions of the purposes of punishment. The English common law of crimes enforced a royal peace by conditioning punishment on unauthorized force and harm to particular victims. The story of American criminal law has been the emergence of a more utilitarian conception of criminal offending as the imposition of risk or the violation of consent, combined with culpability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195321200
• ISBN13: 9780195321203
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"