Criminal Law and Population Control

Authors

Kent Greenawalt, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1971

Abstract

Several important questions can be asked about criminal law and the population problem. One is how greatly overpopulation, with its contribution to poverty and urban crowding, is a cause of crime, and, obversely, the extent to which population control would be a form of crime control. Another question is how much population growth increases the range of behavior that is and should be covered by criminal sanctions. Although these and other questions deserve attention, the purpose of this article is more modest – to consider possible changes in criminal law that could help ease the population problem.

Disciplines

Criminal Law | Law

Comments

Copyright © 1971 Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law.

Recommended Citation

Kent Greenawalt, Criminal Law and Population Control, 24 Vand. L. Rev. 465 (1971).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4065