Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order: Crime and the Genius of Scots Law, 1747 to the Present Paperback - 2005
by Lindsay Farmer
First line
You will permit me however very briefly to describe, rather what I conceive an academical expounder of the laws should do, than what I have ever known to be done . . .
From the rear cover
This book is a critical and historical study of the theory of criminal law which examines, in particular, the relationship between legal tradition and national identity, while developing a radically new approach to questions of responsibility and subjectivity. Previous studies have focused either on the philosophical bases of the criminal law or on the sociology and social history of crime, but there has been little exchange between the two. Lindsay Farmer's is one of the first extended attempts to draw on both fields in order to analyse the body of theorising about the criminal law as a whole. It displays a rare knowledge of the legal, institutional and historical contexts in which criminal law is practised, in combination with an informed understanding of the law itself. Dr Farmer uses contemporary social theory to develop an account of the relationship between legal practice and national culture in Scotland, analysing the belief in the distinctive spirit or 'genius' of Scots law. An exploration of the boundary between national limits and the universal aspirations of criminal law theory reveals the specifically modern characteristics of the criminal law and exposes how contemporary criminal law theory fundamentally misrepresents the character of modern criminal justice.
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- Title Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order: Crime and the Genius of Scots Law, 1747 to the Present
- Author Lindsay Farmer
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 220
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date 2005-11-17
- ISBN 9780521023832 / 0521023831
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.5 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Law Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Criminal law - Scotland - History, Criminal justice, Administration of -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006275979
- Dewey Decimal Code 345.411
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