Morals and the Criminal Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14828910 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard C Fuller (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1942 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 624 |
| Publication date | 1942-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-2731 • E-ISSN: 2160-0015 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1136815 |
| OpenAlex | W177316888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
What are the possibilities of the criminal law as an agency of social control in contemporary American life ? No satisfactory answer to this question can be ventured until we have explored the intricate relationships which exist between current patterns of morality and the prohibitions of criminal statutes. Roscoe Pound has long insisted that the law in action is greatly influenced if not determined by custom and public opinion.2 Yet we sometimes forget his dictum in our zeal to criticize the shortcomings of such law enforcement agencies as the police and criminal courts
Criminal law · Law enforcement · Morality · Political science · Public law · Social science · Sociology · Statute · Criminal Law and Evidence · Law
As tensões entre moral religiosa e o direito da pessoa na conformação das entidades familiares
Comparative Deviance and C riminology
Affective Governmentality
Un concepto de daño y sus consecuencias para la parte general del derecho penal
Is Interference with a Corpse for Procreative Purposes a Criminal Offence
Is Criminal Behaviour Deviant Behaviour
Sociologie des problèmes sociaux
Language, Interaction, and Social Problems
Toward a Sociology of Social Problems
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1965 - 2022 (58) |
| Highly cited | No |