Peter Westen

The Logic of Consent (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351886482
• Artikelnr.: 47954466

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.