Criminal law conversations / edited by Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Robinson, Paul H., 1948-; Garvey, Stephen P., 1965-; Ferzan, Kimberly Kessler, 1971-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxvii, 732 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Decision rules and conduct rules : on acoustic separation in criminal law / Meir Dan-Cohen -- Empirical desert / Paul H. Robinson -- Defending preventive detention / Christopher Slobogin -- The economics of crime control / Doron Teichman -- The difficulties of deterrence as a distributive principle / Paul H. Robinson -- Why only the state may inflict criminal sanctions : the case against privately inflicted sanctions / Alon Harel -- Results don't matter / Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan -- Post-modern meditations on punishment : on the limits of reason and the virtue of randomization / Bernard E. Harcourt -- Remorse, apology, and mercy / Jeffrie G. Murphy -- Interpretive construction in the substantive criminal law / Mark Kelman -- Criminalization and sharing wrongs / S.E. Marshall and R.A. Duff -- Monstrous offenders and the search for solidarity through modern punishment / Joseph E. Kennedy -- Against negligence liability / Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan -- Rape law reform based on negotiation : beyond the no and yes models / Michelle J. Anderson -- Provocation : explaining and justifying the defense in partial excuse, loss of self-control terms / Joshua Dressler -- Objective verses subjective justification : a case study in function and form in constructing a system of criminal law theory / Paul H. Robinson -- Self-defense and the psychotic aggressor / George P. Fletcher and Luis E. Chiesa -- Self-defense against morally innocent threats / Jeff McMahan -- Self-defense, imminence, and the battered woman / Whitley R.P. Kaufman -- Reasonable provocation and self-defense : recognizing the distinction between act reasonableness and emotion reasonableness / Cynthia Lee -- Against control tests for criminal responsibility / Stephen J. Morse -- Abolition of the insanity defense / Christopher Slobogin -- Entrapment and the "free market" for crime / Louis Michael Seidman -- The political economy of criminal law and procedure : the pessimists' view / Richard H. McAdams -- Against jury nullification / Andrew D. Leipold -- Race-based jury nullification : black power in the criminal justice system / Paul Butler -- In support of restorative justice / Erik Luna -- The virtues of offense/offender distinctions / Douglas A. Berman -- The heart has its reasons : examining the strange persistence of the American death penalty / Susan A. Bandes -- Mercy's decline and administrative law's ascendance / Rachel E. Barkow -- Criminal law comes home / Jeannie Suk.