Robert F. Schopp

Justification Defenses and Just Convictions

Herausgeber: Coleman, Jules L.; Postema, Gerald

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defenses that views them as an integral component of the structure of the criminal law. Criminal law is defined here as the institutional representation of the underlying principles of political morality in a liberal society. The book extends the traditional scope of the legal and philosophical discussion of justification defenses. It integrates philosophical analysis with a consideration of contemporary applications, it shows how these defenses are key components of criminal law, and it explores the relationship between legal and moral justification.

Table of contents:
1. Justification defenses: the issues; 2. Justification defenses and the conventional public morality; 3. Self-defense; 4. Self-defense and battered women; 5. Duress and systematically complete mitigation; 6. The limits of justification: necessity and nullification; 7. Conclusion.

This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defences that views them as an integral component of the structure of the criminal law. The book integrates philosophical analysis with a consideration of contemporary applications and shows how these defences are key components of criminal law.

This book extends the traditional scope of the legal and philosophical discussion of justification defences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780521622110
• ISBN-10: 0521622115
• Artikelnr.: 22388126

Inhaltsangabe

1. Justification defenses: the issues
2. Justification defenses and the conventional public morality
3. Self-defense
4. Self-defense and battered women
5. Duress and systematically complete mitigation
6. The limits of justification: necessity and nullification
7. Conclusion.