Title: Crime Talk, Rights Talk, and Double-Talk: Thoughts on Reading Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Review Essay)
Abstract: Under the leadership of Professor Sanford H. Kadish, scholars from several disciplines have contributed articles on virtually every aspect of American justice to an impressive four-volume work, the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice.' As Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson described in her review, Professor Kadish has performed a difficult and needed service.2 The Encylopedia should be on the bookshelf of every lawyer interested in the law. I began by to review these books in summary fashion. It is almost impossible to review an encylopedia, even one devoted to a single, multifaceted field such as justice, in any systematic way. As I read through these volumes, however, I became convinced that Professor George Fletcher was right in saying that the Encylopedia is a window to orthodox thinking on issues of criminal law, procedure, and related fields;3 hence, one can organize a review around this unifying theme. Fletcher also suggests, and I agree, that it would not be fair to criticize the Encyclopedia's essays for lack of originality, for this is an attempt at synthesis, not innovation.4 I also had thought to note at some length how different this encyclopedia is from Diderot's controversial eighteenth-century Encyclop6die.
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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