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Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law

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Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law
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Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell
ISBN/ASIN: 0420478108
ISBN-13: 9780420478108
Number of pages: 156

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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.

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