Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84946-699-8
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simester, A P

Hirsch, Andreas von

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Simester, A P
AP Simester is Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Centre for Legal Theory at the National University of Singapore, and Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King's College London, UK.

Hirsch, Andreas von
Andreas von Hirsch is Emeritus Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the Cambridge University, and Honorary Professor of Penal Theory at the Law Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Much of his earlier writing has appeared under his anglicised name, Andrew von Hirsch.

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.