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• Title:Attempts : in the philosophy of action and the criminal law / Gideon Yaffe.
  
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• Author/Creator:Yaffe, Gideon, 1971-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K5090 .Y34 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Criminal attempt.
  Criminal attempt--United States.
  
• Description:x, 349 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199590667 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 What Are Attempts and Why Do We Criminalize Them?
  1. Rationalizing the Criminalization of Attempt
  2. Need for an Intention
  3. Nature of Trying
  Appendix: A Competing Conception of Trying
  pt. 2 Elemental Conception of the Intention in Attempt and Its Implications
  4. Intention in Attempt
  5. Circumstances and "Impossibility"
  Appendix: Lady Eldon and Her Children, Mr Fact and Mr Law
  6. If it Can't be Done Intentionally Can it be Tried?
  7. Trying by Asking: Solicitation as Attempt
  pt. 3 Evidential Conception of the Act Element and Its Implications
  8. Need for an Act
  9. Stupid Plans and Inherent Impossibility
  10. Act in Attempt
  pt. 4 Sentencing Attempts
  11. Abandonment and Change of Mind
  12. Is it Unfair to Punish Completed Crimes More than Attempts?.