TY - BOOK ID - 77899959 TI - Double Jeopardy PY - 2020 SN - 0814784410 0585424985 9780585424989 9780814782330 0814782337 9780814784419 0814782337 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Double jeopardy KW - Former jeopardy KW - Jeopardy, Double KW - Ne bis in idem KW - Non bis in idem KW - Criminal procedure KW - Due process of law KW - Prosecution KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899959 AB - In the first book-length book on the subject in over a quarter century, George C. Thomas III advances an integrated theory of double jeopardy law, a theory anchored in historical, doctrinal, and philosophical method. Despite popular belief, double jeopardy has never been a limitation on the legislature. It functions instead to keep prosecutors and judges from imposing more than one criminal judgment for the same offense. Determining when seemingly different offenses constitute the "same offense" is no easy task. Nor is it always easy to determine when a defendant has suffered more than one criminal judgment. Tracing American double jeopardy doctrine back to twelfth century English law, the book develops a jurisprudential account of double jeopardy that recognizes the central role of the legislature in creating criminal law blameworthiness. ER -