Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Others, most notably the late Professor Herbert Packer, have written extensively in recent years concerning the limits of the criminal sanction, and it seems trite to observe that the subject matter is hardly novel and has been the subject of literary and philosophical discourse for centuries. The purpose of this brief presentation, therefore, is not to review that voluminous literature or to make expansive claims for the new Maine Criminal Code. Rather, it is to show that the new Maine Code was written with an awareness of the basic premises both of classical theories of limited public intrusion into private matters, and of contemporary socio-economic models which recognize that the first step toward effective criminal justice enforcement is a retreat to more modest and pragmatic goals.
Source: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Author: Petruccelli, Gerald F.
Institution: University of Maine School of Law
Language: English
Topic: Criminal Law and Policy
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7022366791
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