Research Catalog

Title

In the name of justice : leading experts reexamine the classic article "The aims of the criminal law" / edited by Timothy Lynch.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Lynch, Timothy.
• Dershowitz, Alan M.
• Lynch, Timothy, 1964-

Description

xxx, 246 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Judges and legal scholars explore the state of criminal law today and offer examinations of key issues, including suicide terrorism, drug legalization, and the reach of federal criminal liability. From publisher description.

Subject

• Hart, Henry M., Jr., 1904-1969
• Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
• Criminal law > United States
• Criminal law

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-237) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The aims of the criminal law / Henry M. Hart, Jr. -- You're (probably) a federal criminal / Alex Kozinski and Misha Tseytlin -- How correct was Henry M. Hart? / James Q. Wilson --Federal Criminal Law : punishing benign intentions; a betrayal of Professor Hart's admonition to prosecute Only the Blameworthy / Harvey A. Silverglate -- Henry Hart's ''The aims of the criminal law'' : a reconsideration 95 / Richard A. Posner -- How would Henry Hart have approached the problem of suicide terrorism? / Alan M. Dershowitz -- The community's role in defining the aims of the criminal law / James B. Jacobs -- If the criminal law don't fit, civilly commit / Richard B. Sanders, Jacob Zahniser, and Derek Bishop -- Substantive limitations on the criminal law : random thoughts of a judicial conservative / Stephen Markman.

ISBN

• 9781933995229 (alk. paper)
• 193399522X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008055110

OCLC

232982851

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library