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Crimes, harms, and wrongs : on the principles of criminalisation /
When should we make use of the criminal law? Suppose that a responsible legislature seeks to enact a morally justifiable range of criminal prohibitions. What criteria should it apply when deciding whether to proscribe conduct?Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs is a philosophical analysis of the nature, signi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I : CRIMINALISATION AND WRONGDOING: The nature of criminalisation
- Wrongfulness and reasons
- PART II : HARM: Crossing the harm threshold
- Remote harms : the need for an extended harm principle
- On the imputation of remote harms
- PART III : OFFENCE: Rethinking the Offence Principle
- The distinctiveness of the Offence Principle
- Mediating principles for offensive conduct
- PART IV : PATERNALISM: Reflections on paternalistic prohibitions
- Some varieties of indirect paternalism
- PART V : DRAWING BACK FROM CRIMINAL LAW: Mediating considerations and constraints
- Two-step criminalisation.