Double Jeopardy

The History, the Law

III Thomas George C. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1998
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-8233-0 (ISBN)

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The author of this work presents an integrated theory of double-jeopardy law, a theory anchored in historical, doctrinal and philosophical method which functions to keep prosecutors and judges from imposing more than one criminal judgment for the same offence.

In the first book-length book on the subject in over a quarter century, George C. Thomas III advances an integrated theory of double jeopardy law, a theory anchored in historical, doctrinal, and philosophical method.
Despite popular belief, double jeopardy has never been a limitation on the legislature. It functions instead to keep prosecutors and judges from imposing more than one criminal judgment for the same offense. Determining when seemingly different offenses constitute the "same offense" is no easy task. Nor is it always easy to determine when a defendant has suffered more than one criminal judgment. Tracing American double jeopardy doctrine back to twelfth century English law, the book develops a jurisprudential account of double jeopardy that recognizes the central role of the legislature in creating criminal law blameworthiness.

A former Chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools, George C. Thomas III is Professor of Law at Rutgers University, Newark and coeditor, with Richard Leo, of The Miranda Debate.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.1998
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	653 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften
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ISBN-10	0-8147-8233-7 / 0814782337
ISBN-13	978-0-8147-8233-0 / 9780814782330
Zustand	Neuware