Truth, Error, and Criminal Law

Truth, Error, and Criminal Law
Author: Larry Laudan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2006-06-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113945708X

Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime, Larry Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were, as higher courts routinely claim, the overriding aim of the criminal justice system. Laudan mounts a systematic critique of existing rules and procedures that are obstacles to that quest. He also examines issues of error distribution by offering the first integrated analysis of the various mechanisms - the standard of proof, the benefit of the doubt, the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof - for implementing society's view about the relative importance of the errors that can occur in a trial.

Rethinking Evidence

Rethinking Evidence
Author: William Twining
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1994
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780810111424

Evidence, proof and probabilities, rationality, skepticism and narrative in legal discourse, and the reform of criminal evidence have all been the subject of lively debates in recent years. This book brings together seminal and new essays from a leading contributor to this new evidence scholarship. Rethinking Evidence contains a series of linked essays which consider historical, theoretical, and applied themes from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together well-known papers and also includes substantial new essays on the nature and scope of the law of evidence, lawyers' stories, and the case of Edith Thompson. These readable and provocative essays represent a major contribution not only to legal theory but also to the general study of discourse about evidence in many disciplines.

Criminal Psychology

Criminal Psychology
Author: Hans Gross
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1911
Genre: Crime and criminals
ISBN:

Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Truth

Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Truth
Author: Tim Hillier
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2022-12
Genre:
ISBN: 1529203236

Can the criminal justice system achieve justice based on its ability to determine the truth? This book investigates the concept of truth and scrutinises how well the criminal justice process facilitates truth-finding. It bridges the gap between what people expect from the justice system and what it can legitimately deliver.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

The Owl of Minerva

The Owl of Minerva
Author: Boštjan M. Zupančič
Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2008
Genre: Civil rights
ISBN: 907759647X

The title of the book is taken from Hegel and refers to the idea that philosophy cannot be prescriptive because it understands only in hindsight. The same holds true for conceptions of human rights. Based on his many years of experience in the field, the author shares his thoughts about human rights and the role it plays in society. In these thought-provoking essays, the author examines the dialectic relationship between rule of law and law and order; between state and individual; judicial power of logic vs executive logic of power. These dynamic contradictions are never resolved. On the contrary, they are the motor of development and inspire judicial reasoning and the balancing of justice vis--vis power and arbitrariness.

Criminal Law and its Processes

Criminal Law and its Processes
Author: Sanford H. Kadish
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 1466
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1454886250

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. From a preeminent authorship team, Criminal Law and its Processes: Cases and Materials, Tenth Edition, continues in the tradition of its best-selling predecessors by providing students not only with a cohesive policy framework through which they can understand and examine the use of criminal laws as a means for social control but also analytic tools to understand and apply important criminal law doctrines. Instead of presenting the elements of various crimes in a disjointed fashion, Criminal Law and its Processes: Cases and Materials focuses on having students develop a nuanced understanding of the underlying principles, rules, and policy rationales that inform all criminal laws. A cases-and-notes pedagogy along with scholarly excerpts, questions, and notes, provides students with a rich foundation for not only the academic examination of criminal laws but also the application of the law to real-world scenarios. Features: Retains prior edition’s principal cases and Notes and Questions approach to explain and probe fundamental concepts. Notes updated to incorporate contemporary cases and recent news touching on criminal law. Inclusion of additional preeminent cases in the field of criminal law, including: Yates v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1074, (Supreme Court application of common statutory interpretation techniques and the rule of lenity) Rosamond v. United States, 134 S. Ct. 1240, (Supreme Court examination of accomplice liability) Perry v. Florida (examination of the agreement requirement for conspiracy through the lens of a Florida sexual battery offense). Theft (chapter 9) substantially revised to include new principal case dealing with trespassers takers in the credit card context. Expanded discussion of: mass incarceration and prosecutorial/law enforcement discretion; and, the intersections between race and criminal la

Criminal Psychology

Criminal Psychology
Author: Hans Gross
Publisher: 谷月社
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: True Crime
ISBN:

INDEX GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN CRIMINAL SCIENCE SERIES. INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH VERSION. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. TRANSLATOR’S NOTE. CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY. INTRODUCTION. Title A. The Conditions of Taking Evidence. Topic I. METHOD. Section 2. (b) The Method of Natural Science. Topic II. PSYCHOLOGIC LESSONS. Section 3. (a) General Considerations. Section 4. (b) Integrity of Witnesses. Section 5. (c) The Correctness of Testimony. Section 6. (d) Presuppositions of Evidence-Taking. Section 7. (e) Egoism. Section 8. (f) Secrets. Section 9. (g) Interest. Topic III. PHENOMENOLOGY: STUDY OF THE OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF MENTAL STATES. Section 10. Section 11. (a) General External Conditions. Section 12. (b) General Signs of Character. Section 13. (c) Particular Character-signs. (d) Somatic Character-Units. Section 14. (1)General Considerations. Section 15. (2)Causes of Irritation. Section 16. (3)Cruelty. Section 17. (4)Nostalgia. Section 18. (5)Reflex Movements. Section 19. (6)Dress. Section 20. (7)Physiognomy and Related Subjects. Section 21. (8)The Hand. Title B. The Conditions for Defining Theories. Topic I. THE MAKING OF INFERENCES. Section 22. Section 23. (2) Proof. Section 24. (b) Causation. Section 25. (c) Skepticism. Section 26. (d) The Empirical Method in the Study of Cases. Section 27. (e) Analogy. Section 28. (f) Probability. Section 29. (g) Chance. Section 30.(h) Persuasion and Explanation. Section 31. (i) Inference and Judgment. Section 32.(j) Mistaken Inferences. Section 33. (k) Statistics of the Moral Situation. Topic II. KNOWLEDGE. Section 34. Title A. General Conditions. Topic I. OF SENSE-PERCEPTION. Section 35. Section 36. (a) General Considerations. (b) The Sense of Sight. Section 37. (1)General Considerations. Section 38. (2)Color Vision. Section 39. (3)The Blind Spot. Section 40. (c) The Sense of Hearing. Section 41. (d) The Sense of Taste. Section 42. (e) The Sense of Smell. Section 43. (f) The Sense of Touch. Topic 2. PERCEPTION AND CONCEPTION. Section 44. Topic 3. IMAGINATION. Section 45. Topic 4. INTELLECTUAL PROCESSES. Section 46. (a) General Considerations. Section 47. (b) The Mechanism of Thinking. Section 48. (c) The Subconscious. Section 49. (d) Subjective Conditions. Topic 5. ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS. Section 50. Topic 6. RECOLLECTION AND MEMORY. Section 51. Section 52.(a) The Essence of Memory. Section 53. (b) The Forms of Reproduction. Section 54. (c) The Peculiarities of Reproduction. Section 55. (d) Illusions of Memory. Section 56. (e) Mnemotechnique. Topic 7. THE WILL. Section 57. Topic 8. EMOTION. Section 58. Topic 9. THE FORMS OF GIVING TESTIMONY. Section 59. Section 60. (a) General Study of Variety in Forms of Expression. Section 61. (b) Dialect Forms. Section 62. (c) Incorrect Forms of Expression. Title B. Differentiating Conditions of Giving Testimony. Topic 1. GENERAL DIFFERENCES. (a) Woman. Section 63. (1)General Considerations. Section 64. 2.Difference between Man and Women. (3)Sexual Peculiarities. Section 65. (a) General Considerations. Section 66. (b) Menstruation. Section 67. (c) Pregnancy. Section 68. (d) Erotic. Section 69. (e) Submerged Sexual Factors. (4)Particular Feminine Qualities. Section 70. (a) Intelligence. Section 71. 1. Conception. Section 72. 2. Judgment. Section 73. 3. Quarrels with Women. Section 74. (b) Honesty. Section 75. (c) Love, Hate and Friendship. Section 76. (d) Emotional Disposition and Related Subjects. Section 77. (e) Weakness. Section 78. (b) Children. Section 79. (1)General Consideration. Section 80. (2)Children as Witnesses. Section 81. (3)Juvenile Delinquency. Section 82. (c) Senility. Section 83. (d) Differences in Conception. Section 84. (e) Nature and Nurture. Section 85. I.The Influence of Nurture. Section 86. (2)The Views of the Uneducated. Section 87. (3)One-Sided Education. Section 88. (4)Inclination. Section 89. (5)Other Differences. Section 90. (6)Intelligence and Stupidity. Topic 2. ISOLATED INFLUENCES. Section 91. (a) Habit. Section 92. (b) Heredity. Section 93. (c) Prepossession. Section 94. (d) Imitation and the Crowd. Section 95. (e) Passion and Affection. Section 96. (f) Honor. Section 97. (g) Superstition. Topic 3. MISTAKES. (a) Mistakes of the Senses. Section 98. (1) General Considerations. Section 99. (2)Optical Illusions. Section 100. (3)Auditory Illusions. Section 101. (4)Illusions of Touch. Section 102. (5)Illusions of the Sense of Taste. Section 103. (6)The Illusions of the Olfactory Sense. Section 104. (b) Hallucinations and Illusions. Section 105. (c) Imaginative Ideas. (d)Misunderstandings. Section 106. (1) Verbal Misunderstandings. Section 107. (2)Other Misunderstandings. (e)The Lie. Section 108. (1) 1. General Considerations. Section 109. (2)The Pathoformic Lie. Section 110. (a) Sleep and Dream. Section 111. (b) Intoxication. Section 112. (c) Suggestion. APPENDIX A. SERIALS APPENDIX B. FOOTNOTES: