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The structures of criminal law / edited by R.A. Duff ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Criminalization series.
- Criminalization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal law.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Criminalization is a new series arising from an interdisciplinary investigation into the issue of criminalization, focussing on the principles and goals that should guide decisions about what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization, the six volumes will tackle the key questions at the heart of issue: By reference to what principles and goals should legislations decide what tocriminalize? How should criminal wrongs be classified and differentiated? And how should law enforcement officials apply the
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: The Structures of the Criminal Law; 2. The Standard of the Reasonable Person in the Criminal Law; 3. Resultant Luck and Criminal Liability; 4. Criminalizing SM: Disavowing the Erotic, Instantiating Violence; 5. Constitutionalism and the Limits of the Criminal Law; 6. International Crime: in Context and in Contrast; 7. Legal Form and Moral Judgement: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; 8. Abnormal Law: Teratology as a Logic of Criminalization; 9. Criminalization Tensions: Empirical Desert, Changing Norms, and Rape Reform
- 10. Preparation Offences, Security Interests, Political FreedomIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-173224-9
- 1-283-58036-5
- 9786613892812
- 0-19-163022-5
- OCLC:
- 809313426
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