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by Herbert Packer

Author: Herbert Packer
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Revised ed. edition (June 1, 1968)
Language: English
Pages: 388
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Herbert Leslie Packer (1925 – December 6, 1972) was an American law professor and criminologist.
Herbert Leslie Packer (1925 – December 6, 1972) was an American law professor and criminologist. His key work is the book The Limits of the Criminal Sanction (1968), which proposed two models of the criminal justice system, the crime control model and the due process model. These models were extremely influential in criminology and criminal policy debates.
The argument of this book begins with the proposition that there are certain things we must understand about the . First, we need to ask some questions about the rationale of the criminal sanction
The argument of this book begins with the proposition that there are certain things we must understand about the criminal sanction before we can begin to talk sensibly about its limits. First, we need to ask some questions about the rationale of the criminal sanction
Professor Herbert L. Packer rhetorically asks that question at the beginning of this excellent book, and then goes about the business of. .This is the person for whom The Limits of the Crhnnal Sanction ought to be required reading. A noted scholar has already called the book a classic.
He develops a view of the criminal justice prob-lem which leads him to counsel great caution in the use of the criminal sanction. Every man whose office permits him to exercise control over the criminal law must read it to properly perform his task. iardly less can be said of the voter who would intelligently exercise his franchise.
The argument of this book begins with the proposition that there are certain things we must understand about the criminal sanction before we can begin to talk sensibly about its limits.
Stanford university press, 1968
Stanford university press, 1968. The timeliness of the project, as its author points out, hardly needs emphasis.
The Limits of Criminal Law: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches to Legal Theorizing by Carl Constantin Lauterwein. Arlie Loughnan - 2014 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 8 (3):687-691. James Stribopoulos - 2012 - In François Tanguay-Renaud & James Stribopoulos (ed., Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law. Hart Publishing. The Limits of Criminal Culpability.
This essay argues that Packer's two-model conceptualization of the criminal process is best understood within his professional milieu of doctrinal legal scholarship and the political context of the Warren Court revolution.
In the 1960s, legal scholar Herbert L. Packer created models to describe exceeding expectations of the criminal justice system. The limits of the criminal sanction, by Herbert L. Packer (1968). These two models can be competing ideologies in criminal justice, but we will discuss how these models can be merged or balanced to work together. The first tension between these models is often the values they place as most important in the criminal justice system, the crime control model and the due process model.
Packer, Herbert (1968). The limits of the criminal sanction. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Pakes, Francis (2004). Rankin, Bruce, & Quane, James (2000). Neighborhood poverty and the social isolation of inner-city African-American families. Social Forces, 79, 139-170.