NCJ Number
118520
Editor(s)
I H Dennis
Date Published
1987
Length
253 pages
Annotation
These 14 essays focus on some of the problems involved in the proposed codification of British criminal laws and some of its wider implications for the criminal justice process.
Abstract
Individual papers examined the history and future of the current codification process, division of decisionmaking responsibility between the judge and the jury, and basic issues in the construction of criminal culpability in the draft legislation. These include the elements of offenses and defenses, terminology related to fault, the insanity defense, and the treatment of fatal and nonfatal personal offenses. Other papers examine the problems involved in policy research, the regulation of discretion in pretrial decisions, discretion at the post-conviction stage, and the use of sentencing guidelines. Chapter notes and index.