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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Felony Laws of the 50 States and the District of Columbia
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Felony Murder
Author: Guyora Binder
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804781702
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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The felony murder doctrine is one of the most widely criticized features of American criminal law. Legal scholars almost unanimously condemn it as irrational, concluding that it imposes punishment without fault and presumes guilt without proof. Despite this, the law persists in almost every U.S. jurisdiction. Felony Murder is the first book on this controversial legal doctrine. It shows that felony murder liability rests on a simple and powerful idea: that the guilt incurred in attacking or endangering others depends on one's reasons for doing so. Inflicting harm is wrong, and doing so for a bad motive—such as robbery, rape, or arson—aggravates that wrong. In presenting this idea, Guyora Binder criticizes prevailing academic theories of criminal intent for trying to purge criminal law of moral judgment. Ultimately, Binder shows that felony murder law has been and should remain limited by its justifying aims.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804781702
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The felony murder doctrine is one of the most widely criticized features of American criminal law. Legal scholars almost unanimously condemn it as irrational, concluding that it imposes punishment without fault and presumes guilt without proof. Despite this, the law persists in almost every U.S. jurisdiction. Felony Murder is the first book on this controversial legal doctrine. It shows that felony murder liability rests on a simple and powerful idea: that the guilt incurred in attacking or endangering others depends on one's reasons for doing so. Inflicting harm is wrong, and doing so for a bad motive—such as robbery, rape, or arson—aggravates that wrong. In presenting this idea, Guyora Binder criticizes prevailing academic theories of criminal intent for trying to purge criminal law of moral judgment. Ultimately, Binder shows that felony murder law has been and should remain limited by its justifying aims.
The Prosecution of Felony Arrests
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Category : Court administration
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Category : Court administration
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Felony Sentences in State Courts
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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State Felony Courts and Felony Laws
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Category : Court administration
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Court administration
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature
Author: Elise Wang
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192698249
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, drawing from the instantiating texts of English law: acts of Parliament, judicial treatises, the Magna Carta. But those whose job it was to write about the law rarely wrote about felony. Its definition was left to its practice--from investigation to conviction--and that procedure fell to local communities who were generally untrained in the law. Left with many practical and ethical questions and few legal answers, they turned to cultural ones, archived in sermons they had heard, plays they had seen, and poetry they knew. This book reads the documents of criminal procedure--coroners' reports, plea rolls, and gaol delivery records--alongside literary scenes of investigation, interrogation, and witnessing to tell a new intellectual history of criminal procedure's beginnings. The chapters of The Making of Felony Procedure guide the reader through the steps of a felony prosecution, from act to conviction, examining the questions local communities faced at each step. What evidence should be prioritized in a death investigation? Should the accused consider narrative satisfaction when building his plea? What are the dangers of a witnessing system that depends so heavily on a few "oathworthy" men? What can a jury do if the accused's guilt seems partial or complex? And what if the defendant-for whatever reason--refuses to participate in this new, still--delicate system of justice? The book argues that answers they found, and the sources that informed them, created the system that became modern criminal procedure. The epilogue offers some thoughts about the resilience and incoherence of the concept of felony, from the start of the jury trial to the present day.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192698249
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, drawing from the instantiating texts of English law: acts of Parliament, judicial treatises, the Magna Carta. But those whose job it was to write about the law rarely wrote about felony. Its definition was left to its practice--from investigation to conviction--and that procedure fell to local communities who were generally untrained in the law. Left with many practical and ethical questions and few legal answers, they turned to cultural ones, archived in sermons they had heard, plays they had seen, and poetry they knew. This book reads the documents of criminal procedure--coroners' reports, plea rolls, and gaol delivery records--alongside literary scenes of investigation, interrogation, and witnessing to tell a new intellectual history of criminal procedure's beginnings. The chapters of The Making of Felony Procedure guide the reader through the steps of a felony prosecution, from act to conviction, examining the questions local communities faced at each step. What evidence should be prioritized in a death investigation? Should the accused consider narrative satisfaction when building his plea? What are the dangers of a witnessing system that depends so heavily on a few "oathworthy" men? What can a jury do if the accused's guilt seems partial or complex? And what if the defendant-for whatever reason--refuses to participate in this new, still--delicate system of justice? The book argues that answers they found, and the sources that informed them, created the system that became modern criminal procedure. The epilogue offers some thoughts about the resilience and incoherence of the concept of felony, from the start of the jury trial to the present day.
Felony Sentences in the United States
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England
Author: Elizabeth Papp Kamali
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.
Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 1988
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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