A Radical Community of Aid: A Rejoinder to Opponents of Affirmative Duties to Help Strangers

Part One sets forth and criticizes the law of criminal omissions, and considers why bystanders often omit ; that is, fail to intervene on behalf of strangers. Viewing the problem through a well-publicized barroom rape, Part Two presents the minority states' provisions. Part Two also discusses t...

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1. VerfasserIn: Yeager, Daniel B. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 1993
In:Jahr: 1993
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Zusammenfassung:Part One sets forth and criticizes the law of criminal omissions, and considers why bystanders often omit ; that is, fail to intervene on behalf of strangers. Viewing the problem through a well-publicized barroom rape, Part Two presents the minority states' provisions. Part Two also discusses the results of my letter survey of supervising prosecutors in the jurisdictions that have duty-to-aid and duty-to-rescue laws' and analyzes the few cases which have been litigated under these statutes. Part Three attempts to demonstrate that the prevailing law of omissions no longer achieves a desirable balance between the two coveted values of autonomy and security