Douglas Husak

Overcriminalization

The Limits of the Criminal Law

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Produktbeschreibung

Husak's primary goal is to defend a set of constraints to limit the authority of states to enact and enforce criminal offenses. In addition, Husak situates this endeavor in criminal theory as traditionally construed. This book urges the importance of this topic in the real world, while most Anglo-American legal philosophers have neglected it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780195328714
• ISBN-10: 019532871X
• Artikelnr.: 22896859

Autorenporträt

Douglas Husack is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: The Amount of Criminal Law
II: How More Crimes Produce Injustice
III: The Content of New Offenses
IV: An Illustration of Overcriminalization
Chapter Two: Internal Constraints on Criminalization
I: The General Part of Criminal Law
II: From Punishment to Criminalization
III: A Right Not to Be Punished?
IV: Malum Prohibitum
Chapter Three: External Constraints on Criminalization
I: Infringing the Right Not to be Punished
II: The Devil in the Details
III: Crimes of Risk-Creation
Chapter Four: Alternative Theories of Criminalization
I: Law and Economics
II: Utilitarianism
III: Legal Moralism