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- Title: Reconstructing Criminal Law - Text and Materials (Book Review)
- Author : McGill Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 245 KB
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Nicola Lacey, Celia Wells and Dirk Meure, Reconstructing Criminal Law--Text and Materials. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. Pp. xxix, 528 [$75.00]. Reviewed by J.P. McEvoy * and Dennis Klinck ** The word "reconstruction" denotes a rebuilding; it implies that what was constructed in the past has not merely proved inadequate and required some renovation, but has proved so inadequate that the whole is best torn down so that a new beginning can be made. When, therefore, a text bears the title Reconstructing Criminal Law, (1) an expectation is created that the authors will expose and challenge the basic precepts and assumptions of criminal law and, in their place, attempt to offer a new set of precepts and assumptions upon which is constructed a conceptually coherent theory of criminal law in the manner of G.P. Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law. (2) Readers of Reconstructing Criminal Law will not have their legitimate expectations satisfied. Published as part of Weidenfeld and Nicolson's Law in Context Series, which already boasts thirty-four other titles ranging from Peter Cane's Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law (3) to Peter Goodrich's Languages of Law--From Logics of Memory to Nomadic Masks, (4) the text is perhaps better described by its series than its actual title; it presents criminal law in its evolving social context rather than attempting a reconstruction of criminal law.