Publication Date
2011
Abstract
In the following essay part of a symposium on criminal punishment and social deprivation Richard Delgado revisits a subject he addressed 25 years ago in a classic article on the rotten social background defense He ponders why this defense has found only a slight foothold in the law of criminal defenses and asks what this failure means about our basic social commitments
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
The Wretched of the Earth,
2
Ala. C.R. & C.L. L. Rev.
1
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_articles/376
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