Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in American Legal Thought

Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in American Legal Thought

Green, Thomas Andrew (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Cambridge University Press

10/2015

520

Mole

Inglês

9781107566880

15 a 20 dias

This book deals with the most fundamental problem in criminal law, the way in which free will and determinism relate to criminal responsibility.
Introduction; Part I. Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in the Age of Pound: 1. The fin de siecle: Speranza; 2. The Progressive Era: Pound; 3. Pound eclipsed?: the conversation of the mid to late 1920s; Part II. Conventional Morality and the Rule of Law: Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in the Forgotten Years, 1930-60: 4. Scientific positivism, utilitarianism, and the wages of conventional morality, 1930-7; 5. Entr'acte: intimations of freedom, 1937-53; 6. Durham v. US, the moral context of the law, and reinterpretations of the Progressive inheritance, 1954-8; Part III. Freedom, Criminal Responsibility, and Retributivism in Late Twentieth-Century Legal Thought: 7. The foundations of neo-retributivism, 1957-76; 8. Rethinking the freedom question, 1978-94; 9. Competing perspectives at the close of the twentieth century; Conclusion.
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