Incivilities regulating offensive behaviour edited by Andrew von Hirsch and A.P. Simester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simester, A. P., editor.

Von Hirsch, Andrew, editor.

Series:

Studies in penal theory and penal ethics.

Studies in penal theory and penal ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuisances--England.

Nuisances.

Nuisances--Wales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford Portland, OR Hart Publishing 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prohibitions against offensive conduct have existed for many years, but their extent and use was on the decline. Recently, however, several jurisdictions, including England and Wales, have moved to broaden the reach and severity of measures against incivilities. New measures include expanded targeting of unpopular forms of public conduct, such as begging, and legislation authorising magistrates to issue prohibitory orders against anti-social behaviour. Because these quality-of-life prohibitions can be so restrictive of personal liberties, it is essential to develop adequate guiding and limiting principles concerning State intervention in this area. This book addresses the legal regulation of offensive behaviour. Topics include: the nature of offensiveness; the grounds and permissible scope of criminal prohibitions against offensive behaviour; the legitimacy of civil orders against incivilities; and identifying the social trends that have generated current political interest in preventing incivilities through intervention of law. These questions are addressed by eleven distinguished philosophers, criminal law theorists, criminologists, and sociologists. In an area that has attracted much public comment but little theoretical analysis to date, these essays develop a fuller conceptual framework for debating questions about the legal regulation of offensive behaviour

Contents:

1 Penal Offence in Question: Some Reference Points for Interdisciplinary Conversation

Paul Roberts

2 How Offensive Can You Get?

RA Duff and SE Marshall

3 Disgust: Metaphysical and Empirical Speculations

Douglas Husak

4 Penalising Offensive Behaviour: Constitutive and Mediating Principles

Andrew von Hirsch and AP Simester

5 Legal Regulation of Offence

Tatjana Hörnle

6 Crimes of Offence

John Tasioulas

7 Regulating Offensive Conduct through Two-Step Prohibitions

AP Simester and Andrew von Hirsch

8 'No Spitting': Regulation of Offensive Behaviour in England and Wales

Elizabeth Burney

9 Social Capital, Trust and Offensive Behaviour

Bryan S Turner

Incivilities, Offence and Social Order in Residential Communities

Anthony E Bottoms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9786610829279

9781472559968

1472559967

9781280829277

1280829273

9781847312839

1847312837

OCLC:

314634768