Wrongs and crimes / Victor Tadros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tadros, Victor, author.

Series:

Criminalization series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.

Decision making.

Criminal law--Philosophy.

Criminal law.

Physical Description:

vi, 350 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization, the series tackles the key questions at the heart of the issue: what principles and goals should guide legislators in deciding what to criminalize? How should criminal wrongs be classified and differentiated? How should law enforcement officials apply the law's specifications of offences? The sixth volume in the series offers a philosophical investigation of the relationship between moral wrongdoing and criminalization. Considering the justification of punishment, the nature of harm, the importance of autonomy, inchoate wrongdoing, the role of consent, and the role of the state, the book provides an account of the nature of moral wrongdoing, the sources of wrongdoing, why wrongdoing is the central target of the criminal law, and the ways in which criminalization of non-wrongful conduct might be permissible."-- Dust jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Wrongness and response

Wrongdoing and respecting value

The punitive response

Personal practical responsibility

How not to think about criminalization I : restrictive principles

How not to think about criminalization II : justificatory principles

Political liberalism and criminalization

The core case of criminalization

Harm : its currency and its measure

The value of consent

Coercion and consent

Error and consent

Consent to harm

Further beyond harm

Intentions and inchoate wrongdoing

Possession, prohibition, and protection.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-344) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199571376

0199571376

OCLC:

954224007