Books written by Paul H. Robinson

Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies

Miss Genovese noticed a man at the far end of the lot, near a sevenstory apartment house at 82-40 Austin Street. She halted. Then, nervously, she headed up Austin Street toward Lefferts Boulevard, where there is a call box to the 102d ...
Law without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve

See idem at §§ 208(e), (f). 93. See, e.g., Ariz. R. Crim. P. 11.1; Idaho Code § 18–210; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A. 94. ... Judith Cummings, DeLorean Is Freed of Cocaine Charge by a Federal Jury, N.Y. Times, Aug. 17, 1984. 105.
Law without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve

3,2002; Nikki Middlebrook,Noble Residents Rebuilding, Marsh Family to Help with Community Effort, Chattanooga Times, May 22, 2002; Michael Pearson, Body Count Halted as Search Expands, Atlanta J. & Const., Feb. 18, 2002; Michael Pearson ...
Law Without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve

See Crist v. Bretz, 437 U.S.28,38 (1978) (jury trial); Finch v. United States,433 U.S.676 (1977) (bench trial); cf. Goolsby v. Hutto, 691 F.2d 199 (4th Cir. 1982) (holding that jeopardy attached in bench trial when first witness was ...
Crimes That Changed Our World: Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform

Boyer watches the couple fall to the ground. He turns, perhaps to duck behind the wall at the edge of the terrace, but the sniper fires again. The round enters Dr. Boyer's lower back, destroying his kidney.
Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies

Figure 22 An angry rottweiler (Antons Video Productions) By April 1997, Sabine Davidson has four large rottweilers. The largest, a young male named Chance, is close to 80 pounds. Her dogs regularly fight each other inside the fence.
Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law

1, 165, are used for the stage name and description because it is difficult to gloss these ideas. Emphasis in the description original.) Kohlberg argued that people universally progressed from lower to higher stages of moral development ...
Aspen Treatise for Criminal Law

There are two general types of property offenses. The first type includes offenses whose gravamen or central harm is an owner's loss of property, either through destruction, as in the offense ofcriminal mischief, or through an unlawful ...
Criminal Law Conversations

So we may, for instance, decide (in framing facts) to include or exclude events that may have borne on decisions taken at the moment that the actus reus of the crime was committed (time-framing). Or, we may, for example, ...
Criminal Law Case Studies

Provides the entire story behind each case, including the facts leading up to the offense, photographs, and background information about the parties. This approach entices analytical thinking about how the...
Criminal Law: Case Studies & Controversies

The Teacher¿s Manual contains an aftermath for each story, plus any court opinions in the case, allowing instructors to compare their in-class legal analysis To The actual resolution treatise-like summary of the law gives students an ...
Criminal Law Conversations

Criminal Law Conversations showcases the most captivating of these essays, and provides insight into the most fundamental and provocative questions of modern criminal law.
Justice, Liability, And Blame: Community Views And The Criminal Law

This book examines shared intuitive notions of justice among laypersons and compares the discovered principles to those instantiated in American criminal codes.
Distributive Principles of Criminal Law: Who Should be Punished, how Much?

Paul Robinson's brilliant synthesis of social science research and legal reasoning analyzes the competing principles of punishment and proposes a single principle to govern the distribution of criminal liability and punishment.
Aspen Treatise for Criminal Law

A student treatise that explains the basic rules on all core criminal law topics, including the Model Penal Code’s position and the most of the common deviations from it.
Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies

New to the Fifth Edition: Additional and updated case studies and discussion material informed by the professors’ teaching experiences and designed to reinforce issues at the forefront of modern criminal law Streamlined chapters ...
Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies

New to the Fifth Edition: Additional and updated case studies and discussion material informed by the professors’ teaching experiences and designed to reinforce issues at the forefront of modern criminal law Streamlined chapters ...
Criminal Law

For a meaningful exploration of this fascinating area of study, you can depend on Paul Robinson's Criminal Law . Be sure to recommend this vital work to your next criminal law class.
American Criminal Law: Its People, Principles, and Evolution

By embedding sophisticated legal doctrine and analysis in real-world storytelling, the book provides a uniquely effective approach to teaching American criminal law in programs on criminal justice, political science, public policy, history, ...
Shadow Vigilantes: How Distrust in the Justice System Breeds a New Kind of Lawlessness

"This book examines many examples of how the community has responded when the justice system is perceived to fail."--Book jacket.