Criminal Law Reform Toward Deprivation of Property Resulting from Corruption Criminal Acts

Criminal Law: Federal Criminal Code Section

SECTION 1001 of the Criminal Code provides criminal sanctions against persons who deal fraudulently with government agencies.1 Although the origin of the statute dates from 1863,2 only recently have Government attorneys made frequent use of its provisions. In United States v. Diogo, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit supplemented the increasing body of judicial interpretation of sectio...

Criminal Law Reform and the Persistence of Strict Liability

Two reform movements transformed American criminal law in the quarter century that began in the late 1960s. Their origins and effects were starkly different, and their conflict meant that, on core choices about the basis for criminal liability, one movement had to win and the other had to lose. The first movement was the wave of criminal code reform inspired by the American Law Institute’s Mode...

Determinism and Criminal Law

Causation in Criminal Law

Despite difficulties associated with the law of causation, it could be much clearer than it is. The aim of this paper is to present a framework which provides an acceptable explanation of, and justification for, the pattern of the cases and the statutory provisions. The discussion is intended to cover the criminal law of Australia, Canada, England and New Zealand.

Canada's Criminal Law Codification

La r6forme du droit par la codification et son histoire semblent fasciner tout juriste, et notamment le juriste qu6b6cois. L'auteur analyse l'histoire et l'historiographie de ce genre particulier de r~forme h partir d'un recent historique de la codification du droit p6nal canadien de 1892. Toujours conscient des pifges du r6visionnisme et du prsentisme, il 6tablit un paralle entre cette codific...