Drunkenness as a Criminal Offense

Criminal Offending Frequency and Offense Switching

Offense to Others: The Moral Limits of the Criminal

Should refusal to undergo a cesarean delivery be a criminal offense?

Those providing medical care for pregnant women certainly know that they are responsible for both the woman herself and the 1 or more fetuses she is carrying. Regardless of when one believes that life begins, we all understand that concerns about the well-being of a “viable” human fetus are as relevant as those relating to the mother who is carrying it. Book titles, conferences, and untold numb...

Reforming Complicity Law: Trivial Assistance as a Lesser Offense?

American accomplice law is a disgrace. It treats the accomplice in terms of guilt and, potentially, punishment, as if she were the perpetrator, even when her culpability is often less than that of the perpetrator and/or her involvement in the crime is tangential. The subject of accomplice liability has received relatively little scholarly attention in the United States except for a flurry of in...

Failure to report child, elder abuse is criminal offense in Texas.