Justification Defenses and Just Convictions

Klappentext This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defenses that views them as an integral component of the structure of the criminal law. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Robert F. Schopp, Robert F. (University of Nebraska Schopp, Schopp Robert F.
• Assisted by: Jules L. Coleman (Editor), Gerald Postema (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.1998
• EAN: 9780521622110
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62211-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law