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Zusatztext This is a rich and thought-provoking account of a much undertheorized and yet hugely important issue. It is true that the model Husak offers is far from comprehensive, with the task of adding substantive content to its skeleton being candidly deferred or delegated at key points. As Husak rightly emphasizes, however, these moments of uncertainty, ambiguity, or imprecision should not be seen as shortcomings, but should be recognizes as challenges for future scholarship...Husak's book signals a bold attempt to 'shake up' the discipline and to reignite our interest in the core issues of justice, wrong, blame, desert, and to proportionality with which we should be concerned. Informationen zum Autor Douglas Husack is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
