Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law

Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law
by J. C. Smith

Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell 1989
ISBN/ASIN: 0420478108
ISBN-13: 9780420478108
Number of pages: 156

Description:
Professor Smith considers a subject of great importance to the criminal law, both as a topic of extensive academic debate and also in the context of the problems faced by the ordinary citizen who may be confronted with a choice between breaking the letter of the law, or seeing others suffer harm.