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Mönchengladbach, 26 July 1937) [citation needed], is a German jurist, specializing in criminal law, criminal procedural law and philosophy of law. [ 1 ] Jakobs studied legal sciences in Cologne, Kiel and Bonn, and in 1967 he graduated from the University of Bonn with a thesis on criminal law and competition doctrine.
The theory of criminal justice is the branch of philosophy of law that deals with criminal justice and in particular punishment. The theory of criminal justice has deep connections to other areas of philosophy, such as political philosophy and ethics , as well as to criminal justice in practice.
Hallevy lectures on criminal law, criminal justice, evidence law, conflict of laws, bankruptcy law, corporate law, hi-tech law and game theory, he is a long-distance runner, member of the Israeli Bar, holds a pilot license and speaks Hebrew, English, French and German. He is frequently cited in the Israeli Supreme Court, which has embraced most ...
The book was the first full-scale work to tackle criminal reform and to suggest that criminal justice should conform to rational principles. It is a less theoretical work than the writings of Hugo Grotius , Samuel von Pufendorf and other comparable thinkers, and as much a work of advocacy as of theory.
The fourth book is his 1,000-page Textbook of Criminal Law (1978). This was a successful student textbook, and would be one still if he had ever managed to finish the third edition, on which he had been labouring for 14 years at the time of his death. In fact, his range as a writer went far beyond the criminal law.
Offences and Defences: Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Criminal Law (2007) [15] Law as a Leap of Faith: Essays on Law in General (2012) [16] From Personal Life to Private Law (2018) [17] Torts and other Wrongs (2020) [18] Full list of publications at Gardner's Faculty Homepage Archived 8 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine
Postmodernists shift attention from Marxist concerns of economic and social oppression to linguistic production, arguing that criminal law is a language to create dominance relationships. For example, the language of courts (the so-called "legalese") expresses and institutionalises the domination of the individual, whether accused or accuser ...
Labeling theory refers to an individual who is labeled by others in a particular way. The theory was studied in great detail by Becker. [52] It was originally derived from sociology, but is regularly used in criminological studies. When someone is given the label of a criminal they may reject or accept it and continue to commit crime.