Criminal Law and the Authority of the State

How does the state, as a public authority, relate to those under its jurisdiction through the criminal law? Connecting the ways in which criminal lawyers, legal theorists, public lawyers and criminologists address questions of the criminal law''s legitimacy, contributors to this collection explore issues such as criminal law-making and jurisdiction; the political-ethical underpinnings of legitimate criminal law enforcement; the offence of treason; the importance of doctrinal guidance in the application of criminal law; the interface between tort and crime; and the purposes and mechanisms of state punishment. Overall, the collection aims to enhance and deepen our understanding of criminal law by conceiving of the practices of criminal justice as explicitly and distinctly embedded in the project of liberal self-governance.>

About the author

Antje du Bois-Pedain is Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Criminology, and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK.

Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge.
Magnus Ulväng is Professor of Criminal Law at Uppsala University.Petter Asp is Professor of Criminal Law at Stockholm University.

Product details

• Authors: Petter Asp, Petter Bois-Pedain Asp, Petter Du Bois-Pedain Asp, BOIS PEDAIN ANTJE DU, Antje Du Bois-Pedain, Magnus Ulvang
• Assisted by: Petter Asp (Editor), Antje Du Bois-Pedain (Editor), Bois-Pedain Antje du (Editor), Andreas von Hirsch (Editor), Magnus Ulvang (Editor), Magnus Ulväng (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781509905133
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-0513-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics; Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics; Studies in Penal Theory and Pe
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / Constitutional, Criminal justice law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law