Volume 26, Number 8 · May 17, 1979
How to Define the Crime
By Graham Hughes
Rethinking Criminal Law
by George P. Fletcher
Little, Brown, 898 pp., $18.50
George Fletcher has written a very important book which may receive less attention than it deserves. Most people are interested in crime and criminal trials but not in the criminal law. Exactly how someone was disemboweled yesterday is morbidly fascinating; that I may be mugged tomorrow is chilling. But the bounds of liability for conspiracy or the best way to formulate an insanity defense do not excite the public. This lack of attention to principles of liability and excuse is in part the negative side of the intense interest in constitutional issues of criminal procedure.
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