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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Main Author: Green, Thomas Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in the Age of Pound
  • The fin de siècle: Speranza
  • The Progressive Era: Pound
  • 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, 1930-60
  • Scientific positivism, utilitarianism, and the wages of conventional morality, 1930-7
  • Entr'acte: intimations of freedom, 1937-53
  • Durham v. US, the moral context of the law, and reinterpretations of the Progressive inheritance, 1954-8
  • Part III. Freedom, Criminal Responsibility, and Retributivism in Late Twentieth-Century Legal Thought
  • The foundations of neo-retributivism, 1957-76
  • Rethinking the freedom question, 1978-94
  • Competing perspectives at the close of the twentieth century; Conclusion