Freedom and criminal responsibility in American legal thought /

"As the first full-length study of twentieth-century American legal academics wrestling with the problem of free will versus determinism in the context of criminal responsibility, this book deals with one of the most fundamental problems in criminal law. Thomas Andrew Green chronicles legal aca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Green, Thomas Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Criminal liability > United States.
Liberty.
Law > Philosophy.
Liberté.
freedom.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Criminal liability
Law > Philosophy
Liberty
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in the Age of Pound
  • 1. Prologue : The fin de siècle : Speranza
  • 2. The Progressive Era : Pound
  • 3. Pound eclipsed? : the conversation of the mid to late 1920s
  • Part II. Conventional Morality and the Rule of Law : Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in the Forgotten Years, 1930-1960
  • 4. Scientific positivism, utilitarianism, and the wages of conventional morality : 1930-1937
  • 5. Entr'acte : intimations of freedom, 1937-1953
  • 6. Durham v. United States, the moral context of the criminal law, and reinterpretations of the Progressive inheritance, 1954-1958
  • Part III. Freedom, Criminal Responsibility, and Retributivism in Late Twentieth-Century Legal Thought
  • 7. The foundations of neo-retributivism, 1957-1976
  • 8. Rethinking the freedom question, 1978-1994
  • 9. Epilogue : Competing perspectives at the close of the twentieth century.

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