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Making the modern criminal law : criminalization and civil order
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farmer, Lindsay, Author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal law--England.
- Criminal law.
- Criminology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offering an historical and conceptual account of criminal law, this volume provides insight into how legal concepts such as responsibility, wrongdoing, intent, and punishment emerged out of debates and sensibilities from the 18th century to the present day, and explores how the state exerts its power and secures civil order through criminal law.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 10, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-180194-1
- OCLC:
- 945784155
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