Title
The American Model Penal Code: A Brief Overview
Document Type
Article
Comments
10 New Crim. L. Rev. 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.
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Date of Authorship for this Version
7-27-2007
Keywords
model penal code
Recommended Citation
Robinson, Paul H. and Dubber, Markus D., "The American Model Penal Code: A Brief Overview" (2007). Scholarship at Penn Law. Paper 137.
http://lsr.nellco.org/upenn_wps/137
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