General Principles of Criminal Law. Second Edition

2010. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. "The Most Important Treatise on Criminal Law Produced by American Legal Scholarship" Hall, Jerome. General Principles of Criminal Law. Second Edition. Originally published: Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, [1960]. xii, 642 pp. Reprinted 2005, 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. Hardcover. 2" tear to front cover. Else fine. $39.95 * First published to great acclaim in 1947, Hall's General Principles of Criminal Law is one of the undisputed classics in its field. It provides more than a broad overview. Drawing on his expertise in jurisprudence and the work of the legal realists, it analyzes the principles that comprise criminal activity with an emphasis on its creation and definition by officials. This process is explored in the chapters on criminology, criminal theory and penal theory and, in more specific terms, the chapters on legality, mens rea, harm, causation, punishment, strict liability, ignorance and mistake, necessity and coercion, mental disease, intoxication and criminal attempt. "For many years, our standard work on criminal law has been Bishop's. First published in 1856, Bishop's is the only American book in the field that has conspicuously influenced our criminal law. (...) When Jerome Hall's, General Principles of Criminal Law (1947) appeared, it represented the first significant effort to articulate the principles of criminal law since Bishop's era. Hall's work may, in fact, represent the most important treatise on criminal law produced by American legal scholarship.": Fred Cohen, Journal of Legal Education 16 (1963-64) 260.