A P Simester

Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When should we make use of the criminal law? Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs offers a philosophical analysis of the nature and ethical limits of criminalisation. The authors explore the scope of harm-based prohibitions, proscriptions of offensive behaviour, and 'paternalistic' prohibitions aimed at preventing self-harm, developing guiding principles for these various grounds of state prohibition. Both authors have written extensively in the field. They have produced an integrated, accessible, philosophically-sophisticated account that will be of great interest to legal academics, philosophers, and advanced students alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9781849466998
• ISBN-10: 1849466998
• Artikelnr.: 40821845

Autorenporträt

A P Simester is Professor of Law and Provost's Chair at the National University of Singapore. Andreas von Hirsch is Honorary Professor at the Law Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, and Emeritus Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Criminalisation and Wrongdoing 1. The Nature of Criminalisation 2.
Wrongfulness and Reasons Part II: Harm 3. Crossing the Harm Threshold 4.
Remote Harms: the Need for an Extended Harm Principle 5. On the Imputation
of Remote Harms Part III: Offence 6. Rethinking the Offence Principle 7.
The Distinctiveness of the Offence Principle 8. Mediating Principles for
Offensive Conduct Part IV: Paternalism 9. Reflections on Paternalistic
Prohibitions 10. Some Varieties of Indirect Paternalism Part V: Drawing
Back from Criminal Law 11. Mediating Considerations and Constraints 12.
Two-step Criminalisation