Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs - On the Principles of Criminalisation

Zusatztext Head and shoulders above anything else that I have read in criminalisation theory so far. Informationen zum Autor 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. 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. Zusammenfassung Crimes, Harms and Wrongs is a philosophical analysis of the nature, significance and ethical limits of criminalisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Criminalisation and Wrongdoing1. The Nature of Criminalisation 2. Wrongfulness and Reasons Part II: Harm3. Crossing the Harm Threshold 4. Remote Harms: the Need for an Extended Harm Principle 5. On the Imputation of Remote Harms Part III: Offence6. Rethinking the Offence Principle 7. The Distinctiveness of the Offence Principle 8. Mediating Principles for Offensive Conduct Part IV: Paternalism9. Reflections on Paternalistic Prohibitions 10. Some Varieties of Indirect Paternalism Part V: Drawing Back from Criminal Law11. Mediating Considerations and Constraints 12. Two-step Criminalisation

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• Authors: Andreas von Hirsch, Andreas von (University of Cambridge Hirsch, A P Simester, a P Hirsch Simester, A. P. Simester, A. P. Von Hirsch Simester, Andrew Von Hirsch Simester, Professor a P (National University of Si Simester, Professor A P (National University of Singapore) Simester, Andreas Von Hirsch, Andrew von Hirsch
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2011
• EAN: 9781841139401
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-940-1
• No. of pages: 258
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology