In the name of justice
Subtitle: leading experts reexamine the classic article "The aims of the criminal law"
By: edited by Timothy Lynch.
Contributors: Lynch, Timothy.
Publisher: Cato Institute
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781933995229
Subjects: Hart, Henry Melvin; Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States; Criminal law -- United States; Criminal law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The aims of the criminal law / Henry M. Hart, Jr.; title: You're (probably) a federal criminal / Alex Kozinski and Misha Tseytlin; title: How correct was Henry M. Hart? / James Q. Wilson; title: Federal Criminal Law : punishing benign intentions; a betrayal of Professor Hart's admonition to prosecute Only the Blameworthy / Harvey A. Silverglate; title: Henry Hart's ''The aims of the criminal law'' : a reconsideration 95 / Richard A. Posner; title: How would Henry Hart have approached the problem of suicide terrorism? / Alan M. Dershowitz; title: The community's role in defining the aims of the criminal law / James B. Jacobs; title: If the criminal law don't fit, civilly commit / Richard B. Sanders, Jacob Zahniser, and Derek Bishop; title: Substantive limitations on the criminal law : random thoughts of a judicial conservative / Stephen Markman.