Are We Responsible for Who We Are? The Challenge for Criminal Law Theory in the Defenses of Coercive Indoctrination and Rotten Social Background

Should coercive indoctrination or rotten social background be a defense to crime? Traditional desert-based excuse theory roundly rejects these defenses because the offender lacks cognitive or control dysfunction at the time of the offense. The standard coercive crime-control strategies of optimizing...

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Main Author: Robinson, Paul H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 2011
In:Year: 2011
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