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Zusatztext ... stimulating book .../ This is an important book! and reading it is thoroughly to be recommended./ ... the questions he asks are powerful and challenging./ A. P. Simester! The Cambridge Law Journal! 1998. Informationen zum Autor Paul Robinson is Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. Klappentext This unique work sheds much new light on the old problem of conceptualization and classification within criminal law. Paul H. Robinson argues that the current operational structure of criminal law fails to fully account for its different functions, and proceeds to suggest new sample codes of criminal conduct and adjudication in a study that will be seen as an incisive departure from today's pragmatic approach. The book is an important and well-rounded exploration of the structure of criminal law systems that will appeal to both teachers of law and policy-makers around the globe. Zusammenfassung Professor Robinson provides a new critique of the often neglected problem of classification within the criminal law. He presents a discussion of the present conceptual framework of the law, and offers explanations of how and why formal structures do not match the operation of law in practice. In this scholarly exposition of applied criminal theory, Robinson argues that the current operational structure of the criminal law fails to take account of its different functions. He goes on to suggest new sample codes of criminal conduct and criminal adjudication which mark a real departure from the pragmatic approach which presently dominates code-making. This rounded exploration of the structure of systems of criminal law is an important work for law teachers and policy makers world-wide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction 1.: Structure and Function in Criminal Law 2.: The Formal Structure of Current Criminal Law Part II: Operational Structure 3.: The Definition of Offenses 4.: Principles of Imputation 5.: General Defenses Part III: Functional Structure 6.: A Functional Analysis of Criminal Law 7.: The Rules of Conduct 8.: The Doctrines of Liability 9.: The Doctrines of Grading Appendices A Code of Criminal Conduct A Code of Criminal Adjudication ...
