Each American jurisdiction has a criminal code. Most jurisdictions have substantially restructured and improved their codes since 1962, when the American Law Institute first promulgated its Model Penal Code. Such reform efforts are worthwhile, especially in criminal law, because many advantages flow from the thoughtful codification of criminal law rules. By compiling all criminal rules in a single comprehensive source, codification makes access to these rules easier, increasing the chance that citizens will know what the criminal law commands. A codified rule has the advantage of increased precision, which is likely to increase the uniformity of its application. Uncodified rules--or, even worse, unenacted rules, such as common-law offenses-...
If there can be said to be an American criminal code, the Model Penal Code is it. Nonetheless, th...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
Each American jurisdiction has a criminal code. Most jurisdictions have substantially restructured a...
Each American jurisdiction has a criminal code. Most jurisdictions have substantially restructured a...
Each American jurisdiction has a criminal code. Most jurisdictions have substantially restructured a...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
After planning the effort for twenty years, the American Law Institute spent ten years debating and ...
This Article addresses the ongoing-and, indeed, accelerating process of sporadic, piecemeal, and unn...
The Model Penal Code made great advances in clarity and legality, moving most of the states from a m...
The Model Penal Code has become the central document of American criminal justice. It has had some e...
This brief essay summarizes the virtues of the modern American codification movement of the 1960s an...
This volume contributes to the codification debate by bringing together research articles which comp...
The four chief factors influencing the quality of American justice were identified by Dean Roscoe Po...
If there can be said to be an American criminal code, the Model Penal Code is it. Nonetheless, th...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
Each American jurisdiction has a criminal code. Most jurisdictions have substantially restructured a...
Each American jurisdiction has a criminal code. Most jurisdictions have substantially restructured a...
Each American jurisdiction has a criminal code. Most jurisdictions have substantially restructured a...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
After planning the effort for twenty years, the American Law Institute spent ten years debating and ...
This Article addresses the ongoing-and, indeed, accelerating process of sporadic, piecemeal, and unn...
The Model Penal Code made great advances in clarity and legality, moving most of the states from a m...
The Model Penal Code has become the central document of American criminal justice. It has had some e...
This brief essay summarizes the virtues of the modern American codification movement of the 1960s an...
This volume contributes to the codification debate by bringing together research articles which comp...
The four chief factors influencing the quality of American justice were identified by Dean Roscoe Po...
If there can be said to be an American criminal code, the Model Penal Code is it. Nonetheless, th...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...