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Lawbook Exchange Ltd. General Principles of Criminal Law. Second Edition. by Jerome Hall
The Most Important Treatise on Criminal Law Produced by American Legal Scholarship First published to great acclaim in 1947 Halls 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 Bishops. First published in 1856 Bishops is the only American book in the field that has conspicuously influenced our criminal law. (.) When Jerome Halls General Principles of Criminal Law (1947) appeared it represented the first significant effort to articulate the principles of criminal law since Bishops era. Halls work may in fact represent the most important treatise on criminal law produced by American legal scholarship. Fred Cohen Journal of Legal Education 16 (196364) 260.show more