The Logic of Consent - Peter Westen

The Logic of Consent

The Diversity and Deceptiveness of Consent as a Defense to Criminal Conduct

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
392 Seiten
2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27076-3 (ISBN)
67,30 inkl. MwSt
This book analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them.
The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them. Peter Westen skillfully argues that the conceptual aspect accounts for a significant number of the difficulties that legislatures, courts and scholars have with consent in criminal cases; he observes that consent masquerades as a single kind of event when, in reality, it refers to diverse and sometimes mutually exclusive kinds of events. Specifically, consent is used in law to refer to three pairs of contrasting kinds of events: factual versus legal, attitudinal versus expressive, and prescriptive versus imputed. While Westen takes no position on whether the substance of existing defenses of consent in criminal law ought to be enlarged or reduced in scope, he examines each of these contrasting events and analyzes the normative confusions they produce.

Peter Westen is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, USA.

Contents: Introduction. Factual Consent: Introduction; A core conception of consent: an attitude of factual acquiescence; An expression of factual acquiescence. Legal Consent: Introduction; Offenses to which consent is a defense; Prescriptive consent: an attitude or an expression?; Prescriptive attitudinal consent; Non-contemporaneous prescriptive consent; Imputed consent. The Consequences of Conceptual Complexity: Introduction; The confusions of consent; Conclusion; Bibliography, Index of cases; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Law, Justice and Power
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Völkerrecht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht
ISBN-10 1-138-27076-8 / 1138270768
ISBN-13 978-1-138-27076-3 / 9781138270763
Zustand Neuware
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