Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

10-27-2011

SSRN Discipline

Legal Scholarship Network; Criminal Law & Procedure eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Humanities Network; Political Science Network

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

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