Discusses morals' functions and natures that affect the legislation in general.
A legal scholar exposes the psychological forces that undermine the American criminal justice system, arguing that unless hidden biases are addressed, social inequality will widen, and proposes reforms to prevent injustice and help achieve ...
Enlightened luminaries and monarchs alike looked to this text for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day. Of particular interest is Voltaire's commentary on the text, which is included in its entirety.
This book presents a comprehensive theory of a culpability-based criminal law.
This comprehensive reference work presents inside information on the Juvenile Justice-systems in 19 different countries, both in old and new EU-member states and in the United States and Canada.
In The Rules of Insanity, Carl Elliott draws on philosophy and psychiatry to develop a conceptual framework for judging the moral responsibility of mentally ill offenders.