Some Reasons Why Criminal Harms Matter
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2009
Editor(s)
Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
ISBN
9780199748532
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
Why does the criminal law treat a reckless driver who kills several innocent people far more severely than it treats an identical driver who causes less harm or none? Is there an adequate justification for that use of resulting harm?
Recommended Citation
Gerald F. Leonard,
Some Reasons Why Criminal Harms Matter
,
in
Criminal Law Conversations
153
(Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan ed.,
2009).
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