Freedom and criminal responsibility in American legal thought / Thomas Andrew Green, University of Michigan.
2014
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Title
Freedom and criminal responsibility in American legal thought / Thomas Andrew Green, University of Michigan.
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Call Number
KF9235 .G74 2014
ISBN
9780521854603 (hardback)
0521854601 (hardback)
0521854601 (hardback)
Description
xiii, 504 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)877852735
Summary
"As the first full-length study of twentieth-century American legal academics wrestling with the problem of free will versus determinism in the context of criminal responsibility, this book deals with one of the most fundamental problems in criminal law. Thomas Andrew Green chronicles legal academic ideas from the Progressive Era critiques of free will-based (and generally retributive) theories of criminal responsibility to the midcentury acceptance of the idea of free will as necessary to a criminal law conceived of in practical moral-legal terms that need not accord with scientific fact to the late-in-century insistence on the compatibility of scientific determinism with moral and legal responsibility and with a modern version of the retributivism that the Progressives had attacked. Foregrounding scholars' language and ideas, Green invites readers to participate in reconstructing an aspect of the past that is central to attempts to work out bases for moral judgment, legal blame, and criminal punishment"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
The Free Will Problem and the Criminal Law
5
The Free Will Problem in Twentieth-Century American Criminal Law
8
Negotiating Determinism and Conventional Morality: The Jury, the Insanity Defense, and the Bifurcation of Criminal Process
12
The Free Will Problem and the Scope of This Book
18
pt. I
FREEDOM AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE AGE OF POUND
21
Introduction
21
1.
Prologue -- The Fin de Siecle: Speranza
33
The Fin de Siecle
33
The New Century: Gino Speranza
40
The New Science and "Incorrigibles"
46
Free Will and the Jury
50
2.
The Progressive Era: Pound
55
The Progressive Era
55
The AICLC and the 1909 Rapprochement
55
Private Law and Pound
60
Pound's Early Criminal Law Scholarship: 1905--1915
64
Pound's Future of the Criminal Law: 1916--1921
77
Criminal Justice Today: Pound in the Early 1920s
86
Conclusion: Pound Unresolved
93
3.
Pound Eclipsed? -- The Conversation of the Mid-to-Late 1920s
97
Introduction
97
William A. White
99
S. Sheldon Glueck
103
John H. Wigmore and the Ongoing Conversation of the 1920s
108
Conclusion
122
pt. II
CONVENTIONAL MORALITY AND THE RULE OF LAW -- FREEDOM AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE FORGOTTEN YEARS: 1930--1960
125
Introduction
125
4.
Scientific-Positivism, Utilitarianism, and the Wages of Conventional Morality: 1930--1937
134
Introduction
134
Scientific-Positivism
136
The Behavioral Science Critique of Free Will
136
Positivist-Leaning Jurisprudence
140
Social Passions and the Rule of Law
143
Raymond Moley
145
Francis Sayre
147
Jerome Hall
151
John B. Waite
157
Alfred Gausewitz
162
The Utilitarian Reaction: Jerome Michael and Herbert Wechsler
169
Conclusion
184
5.
Entr'acte -- Intimations of Freedom: 1937--1953
187
Introduction
187
Traditionalism Redux: Jerome Hall and Thurman Arnold
189
Jerome Hall
189
Thurman Arnold
196
Positivism and the Consciousness of Freedom: Robert Knight
199
Existential Perspectives: Sir Walter Moberly and Wilber Katz
202
Sir Walter Moberly
203
Wilber Katz
208
Conclusion
212
6.
Durham v. United States, the Moral Context of the Criminal Law, and Reinterpretations of the Progressive Inheritance: 1954--1958
214
Introduction
214
The Insanity Defense and Durham
216
Legal Insanity
216
Durham v. United States, David Bazelon, C.J.
219
Divergence and Convergence
225
The Limits of Utilitarian Compromise: Herbert Wechsler and the Model Penal Code
229
The Voice of Traditionalism: Jerome Hall
238
The Vicissitudes of Positivism: Warren Hill and Thurman Arnold
244
Wilber Katz
251
Thomas Szasz
254
Convergence Triumphant: Henry Hart
257
Conclusion
265
pt. III
FREEDOM, CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND RETRIBUTIVISM IN LATE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY LEGAL THOUGHT
269
Introduction
269
7.
The Foundations of Neo-Retributivism: 1957--1976
284
Introduction
284
Herbert Hart and the American Criminal Jurisprudence of the 1960s
287
A Critique: Francis Allen
287
A New Initiative: Herbert Hart
291
Hart, Wootton, and the Fate of Judgment without Blame
299
Sixties American Criminal Jurisprudence: Packer, Kadish, and Goldstein
305
Herbert Packer
306
Sanford Kadish
311
Abraham Goldstein
314
Herbert Morris: Retributivism Revived
317
Crossroads: The Early 1970s
324
Doing Justice and the Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal
326
The Capacity to Conform: David Bazelon and Stephen Morse
333
Conclusion
340
8.
Rethinking the Freedom Question: 1978--1994
344
Introduction
344
Four Perspectives on Freedom and Responsibility
352
George Fletcher
352
Michael Moore
356
Stephen Morse
372
Lloyd Weinreb
377
Choice, Causation, and Character -- Vicissitudes of the Idea of the Person: 1985--1992
381
Sanford Kadish
383
Joshua Dressler
390
Peter Arenella
396
Variation and Departure: The Early 1990s
403
John Hill
405
Richard Boldt
408
R. George Wright
414
Conclusion
420
9.
Epilogue -- Competing Perspectives at the Close of the Twentieth Century
425
Introduction
425
Toward a New Normativity
427
Culture, Critique, and Communication: Beyond Individual Freedom and Desert?
434
Compatibilism and the Determined Affirmation of Responsibility
441
Michael Moore and Sanford Kadish on "Moral Luck"
442
Stephen Morse
448
Fin de Millennium
453
Conclusion
467
Index of Persons and Sources
485
Subject Index
497