Research Catalog

Title

Justice, liability, and blame : community views and the criminal law / Paul H. Robinson and John M. Darley.

Author

Robinson, Paul H., 1948-

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Darley, John M.

Description

xvii, 307 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Drafters of legal codes often implicitly or explicitly seek to incorporate community standards. To what extent have they succeeded? This book examines shared intuitive notions of justice among laypersons and compares the discovered principles to those instantiated in current American criminal codes. After discussion of the proper role of community views in formulating legal doctrine, Robinson and Darley report eighteen original studies on a wide range of issues in dispute among legal theorists. The authors compare lay intuitions and code provisions on such questions as the justified use of force, insanity, causation, complicity, risk-creation, omission liability, culpability requirements, duress, entrapment, multiple offenses, and criminalization matters such as felony-murder and sexual offenses. Many important differences between the legal code and community views are found, and the authors discuss the implications of those differences.

Series Statement

New directions in social psychology

Uniform Title

New directions in social psychology.

Alternative Title

Justice, liability & blame

Subject

• Criminal law > Social aspects > United States
• Criminal law > United States > Psychological aspects
• Criminal law > Psychological aspects
• Criminal law > Social aspects
• Öffentliche Meinung
• Strafbarkeit
• Strafrecht
• Moraal
• Legitimiteit
• Rechtssociologie
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-299) and index.

Contents

Community standards and the criminal law -- Doctrines of criminalization : what conduct should be criminal? -- Doctrines of justification : when should it be lawful for one to engage in conduct that normally would constitute a violation? -- Doctrines of culpability : when is one's violation of a legal rule blameworthy? -- Doctrines of excuse : when is one's rule violation blameless? -- Doctrines of grading : what degree of punishment is deserved for one's blameworthy violation? -- Conflict between community views and criminal codes.

ISBN

• 0813324505
• 9780813324500

LCCN

94029250

OCLC

• ocm30891441
• 30891441
• SCSB-2046818

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library