The grammar of criminal law American, comparative, and international. Volume One, Foundations Volume One, Foundations /
The Grammar of Criminal Law is a 3-volume work that addresses the field of international and comparative criminal law, with its primary focus on the issues of international concern, ranging from genocide, to domestic efforts to combat terrorism, to torture, and to other international crimes. The fir...
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New York :
Oxford University Press
2007
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- PART I: Philosophical Foundations; Introduction; I.1 From Law to Legal Studies; I.2 General Principles: A Quick History; ONE: Criminal Theory; 1.1 Three Points of Inculpation and Exculpation; 1.2 Three Types of Criminal Law; 1.3 The Nature of Crime: Three Perspectives; 1.4 Four Systems for Thinking about Offenses; 1.5 Three American Schools; TWO: Criminal Law; 2.1 Misleading Labels; 2.2 Statutes and Codes; 2.3 Case Law and Precedent; 2.4 Scholars' Law; 2.5 Constitutional Law; 2.6 International Criminal Law; 2.7 Regional Criminal Law: Europe; THREE: Language; 3.1 Linguistic Diversity; 3.2 The Distinctiveness of English3.3 The Distinctiveness of Languages Other Than English; FOUR: Political Theory; 4.1 The Relevant Categories; 4.2 Libertarianism; 4.3 Liberalism; 4.4 Communitarianism; 4.5 Perfectionism; 4.6 The Political and the Moral; 4.7 Legitimacy; FIVE: Moral Theory; 5.1 The Concept of Morality; 5.2 Utilitarianism; 5.3 Kant's Deontological Morality; 5.4 Loyalty; 5.5 Desert; PART II: Toward a Comparative Synthesis; SIX: Punishment; Preamble to Part II; 6.1 The Nature of Punishment; 6.2 The Rationale of Punishment; 6.3 The Victim's Perspective in Punishment; 6.4 The Universal Significance of Punishment; SEVEN: The Act Requirement; 7.1 Person and Thing; 7.2 Action and Its Opposites; EIGHT: Guilt; 8.1 The Vocabulary of Guilt; 8.2 Biblical Guilt; 8.3 The Psychological Theory of Guilt; 8.4 The Normative Theory of Guilt; 8.5 The Functional Theory of Guilt; 8.6 Collective Guilt;
