Structure and function in criminal law
By: Paul H. Robinson.
Series: [Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice]
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Criminal law -- Methodology
Description: Professor Robinson provides a critique of the problem of classification within the criminal law. He presents a discussion of the conceptual framework of the law, and offers explanations of how and why formal structures do not match the operation of law in practice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series statement on jacket.