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Basic Concepts of Criminal Law

George P Fletcher author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:8th Oct '98

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Criminal law, according to George Fletcher, has become localized law in the sense that each country and, within the USA, each state has adopted its own set of criminal codes, conceptions of punishable behaviour, etc. In this book, Fletcher maintains that there is much greater unity among diverse systems of criminal justice than commonly realized, and that any adequate system of criminal law necessarily must address a set of universal, basic issues. He introduced and sets out the twelve concepts that shape and guide every system of criminal justice, knowledge of which is essential to understanding the structure of the law and its local and national variations.

"...a concise, fair-minded, and remarkably clear synthesis of virtually all of the major debates in contemporary criminal law theory...Fletcher...works masterfully, in order to test the specifically universal and timeless claims of his theory...the readers cannot help but be impressed by what Fletcher has achieved...his dichotomy theory is rich enough to provide the tools for analyzing many of the examined anomalies."--Michigan Law Review

ISBN: 9780195121711

Dimensions: 233mm x 164mm x 16mm

Weight: 336g

236 pages