Bad Acts and Guilty Minds
Conundrums of the Criminal Law
351 pages
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© 1987
With wit and intelligence, Leo Katz seeks to understand the basic rules and concepts underlying the moral, linguistic, and psychological puzzles that plague the criminal law.
"Bad Acts and Guilty Minds . . . revives the mind, it challenges superficial analyses, it reminds us that underlying the vast body of statutory and case law, there is a rationale founded in basic notions of fairness and reason. . . . It will help lawyers to better serve their clients and the society that permits attorneys to hang out their shingles."—Edward N. Costikyan, New York Times Book Review
"Bad Acts and Guilty Minds . . . revives the mind, it challenges superficial analyses, it reminds us that underlying the vast body of statutory and case law, there is a rationale founded in basic notions of fairness and reason. . . . It will help lawyers to better serve their clients and the society that permits attorneys to hang out their shingles."—Edward N. Costikyan, New York Times Book Review
Contents
Acknowledgments
For Those Who Need to Look before They Leap
1. Necessity, the Mother of Invention
2. Bad Acts
3. Guilty Minds
4. The Root of All Evil
5. The Company You Keep
6. The Crime That Never Was
7. Epilogue: Final Reckoning
Notes
Index
For Those Who Need to Look before They Leap
1. Necessity, the Mother of Invention
2. Bad Acts
3. Guilty Minds
4. The Root of All Evil
5. The Company You Keep
6. The Crime That Never Was
7. Epilogue: Final Reckoning
Notes
Index
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