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Necessity Defense

Necessity Defense is an affirmative justification defense in criminal law and the law of trespass whereby an otherwise unlawful act is excused on the ground that the actor, without having reasonably available lawful alternatives and without having substantially created the emergency, reasonably and proportionately chose the lesser of two evils to avert an actual and imminent harm.

48

Publications

1.7K

Citations

58

Authors

26

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

6

Variants

Choice Of Evils Defense

Parents

Children

Publications

48

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Authors

58

  1. BC
    Burleigh Cushing Rodick

    2 publications · 26 citations

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  2. JA
    John Alan Cohan

    CollegeAmerica, United States

    2 publications · 30 citations

    2

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  3. KC
    Kim Chandler

    Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  4. AS
    Alan Sidelle

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  5. RJ
    Renée Jorgensen Bolinger

    Princeton University, United States

    1 publications · 40 citations

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Institutions

26

  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    118 citations

  2. University of New Hampshire at Manchester

    Manchester, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  3. Georgetown University

    Washington, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    124 citations

  4. Edinburgh Napier University

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  5. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  6. Valparaiso University

    Valparaiso, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  7. University of Waikato

    Hamilton, New Zealand

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  8. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

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Venues

  1. The Philosophical Review

    3 publications · 125 citations

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  2. The Journal of Philosophy

    2 publications · 129 citations

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  3. Hume studies

    2 publications · 57 citations

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  4. Criminal Law and Philosophy

    2 publications · 26 citations

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  5. Mind

    2 publications · 133 citations

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