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Excuse: Intoxication - Voluntary Intoxication, Doctrinal Reform And The Trend Toward Elimination, Involuntary Intoxication, Bibliography

The importance of intoxication as a criminal defense can be easily exaggerated. In many cases the defense is legally barred, where available it is often rejected on factual grounds by the decision maker, and even when successful it normally serves to reduce the level of conviction rather than excuse entirely. Yet intoxication remains of great interest to the student of criminal law, for intoxication arguments raise the full range of responsibility issues, from criminal intent to problems with rationality and self-control.

SAMUEL H. PILLSBURY

HERBERT FINGARETTE

ANN FINGARETTE HASSE

See also ACTUS REUS; ALCOHOL AND CRIME: BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS; ALCOHOL AND CRIME: THE PROHIBITION EXPERIMENT; ALCOHOL AND CRIME: TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION; DIMINISHED CAPACITY; DRINKING AND DRIVING; DRUGS AND CRIME: LEGAL ASPECTS; MENS REA.

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Excuse: Intoxication - Voluntary Intoxication

Excuse: Intoxication - Doctrinal Reform And The Trend Toward Elimination

Excuse: Intoxication - Involuntary Intoxication

Excuse: Intoxication - Bibliography

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