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- W2308640668 abstract "Is the criminal law important? I am skeptical. I have come to doubt the relevance of what most of us teach in our courses in criminal law, and of what most of us write when we theorize about the criminal law. I will explain the source of my anxieties, and briefly describe a focus that might help to make our specialty more responsive to the problem I will discuss. I am painfully aware that insecurity about the significance of one’s professional life eventually afflicts just about everyone—legal philosophers (like me) in particular. Non-academics are typically unable to name a single living philosopher, let alone a philosopher of law. My concerns are worth recounting only if they are based on reasons that other specialists in criminal law should share. I believe that this condition is satisfied, and that other teachers and theoreticians should be equally worried about the importance of much of what we do. In the course of defending my skepticism, I will make no serious effort to describe what most of us teach or write about. The tables of contents of leading casebooks can be used to identify what we tend to cover in our classes. We focus on the “general part” of criminal law as applied to a handful of “core” offenses— especially those contained in the Model Penal Code. Most of us skip the meager sections on criminalization. Generalizations about our writing are more perilous. On a deep level, the nature of criminal theory is controversial. Scholars always debate about the scope and boundaries of their discipline, and criminal theorists are no exception. Still, I am confident that readers of this journal will be reasonably familiar with the nature of the research undertaken by most of the contributors. The standard complaint among criminal theorists is that legislatures and courts ignore us. According to George Fletcher, “policy makers in the field of criminal justice should pay more attention to academic criticism.” Why does the real world neglect us? Most of us are quick to blame others for consigning us to irrelevance. In particular, we all believe that criminal justice has been too" @default.
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