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The American Model Penal Code: A Brief OverviewPaul H. RobinsonUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School Markus D. DubberUniversity of Toronto - Faculty of Law 2007 New Criminal Law Review, Vol. 10, pg. 319, 2007 Abstract: If there can be said to be an "American criminal code," the Model Penal Code is it. Nonetheless, there remains an enormous diversity among the fifty-two American penal codes, including some that have never adopted a modern code format or structure. Yet, even within the minority of states without a modern code, the Model Penal Code has great influence, as courts regularly rely upon it to fashion the law that the state's criminal code fails to provide. In this essay we provide a brief introduction to this historic document, its history and its content.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 23 Keywords: model penal code, criminal JEL Classification: K14 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: February 4, 2005 ; Last revised: September 28, 2009Suggested Citation |
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