Mapping American Criminal Law
eBook - ePub

Mapping American Criminal Law

Variations across the 50 States

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mapping American Criminal Law

Variations across the 50 States

About this book

Containing 40 visually coded maps of the fifty states, this book offers an unprecedented look at America's diverse legal landscape. This first-of-its-kind volume sketches the diversity implicit in United States criminal law doctrine through its examination of a range of criminal laws pertaining to murder, sexual assault, drug offenses, the insanity defense, and more and the way in which different states deal with those issues. In addition to providing insights into the most widely invoked standards in criminal law, it raises awareness of the enormous discrepancies among the criminal laws of states, documenting them using dozens of visually coded maps that showcase geographic, political, and socioeconomic differences to explain patterns of agreement and disagreement. Mapping American Criminal Law: Variations Across the 50 States is for political scientists, criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars, policy advisors, legislators, lawyers, judges, and scholars and students of these fields. In addition, each chapter is highly accessible to laypersons and includes an explanation of the subject matter as well as explanations of the various approaches to criminal law taken by states.

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Yes, you can access Mapping American Criminal Law by Paul H. Robinson,Tyler Scot Williams in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Criminal Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781440860126
eBook ISBN
9798216114703
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Criminal Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Part One: Preliminary Issues: Punishment Theory and Legality
  9. Part Two: Homicide
  10. Part Three: Liability Doctrines
  11. Part Four: Justification Defenses
  12. Part Five: Excuse Defenses
  13. Part Six: Nonexculpatory Defenses
  14. Part Seven: Offenses against the Person and Property
  15. Part Eight: Public Order and Decency Offenses
  16. Part Nine: Offenses against the Community
  17. Part Ten: Procedural Issues
  18. Index