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Zusatztext Professor Tadros succeeds admirably with his mission to consider the nature and sources of wrongdoing which every law student must begin with both with "personal and interpersonal responses" which arise... It is a great tribute to the author that he has been able to sift through the vast literature this subject generates to give us, as the readers a coherent seventeen chapters in such a lucid way thus making the book both "readable" and "lovable"...to us, in any event, and no doubt to a new generation of applied criminologists, and possibly budding jurisprudents. Informationen zum Autor Victor Tadros is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick. He works in the philosophy of criminal law, just war theory, and on a range of issues in moral, legal and political philosophy. He is the author of Criminal Responsibility (OUP, 2005) and, with Antony Duff, Lindsay Farmer and Sandra Marshall, The Trial on Trial vol.3: Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial (Hart, 2007). His most recent book is The Ends of Harm: The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law (OUP, 2011). He has edited seven books, including four in the Criminalization series. He currently holds a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on the ethics of armed conflict and is a Fellow of the British Academy. Klappentext Offering a philosophical investigation of the relationship between moral wrongdoing and criminalization, this book provides an account of the nature of moral wrongdoing, the sources of moral wrongdoing, why wrongdoing is the central target of criminal law, and the ways in which criminalization of non-wrongful conduct might be permissible. Zusammenfassung Offering a philosophical investigation of the relationship between moral wrongdoing and criminalization, this book provides an account of the nature of moral wrongdoing, the sources of moral wrongdoing, why wrongdoing is the central target of criminal law, and the ways in which criminalization of non-wrongful conduct might be permissible. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction Part A: Punishing Wrongs 2: Wrongness and Responses 3: Wrongdoing and Respecting Value 4: The Punitive Response 5: Personal Practical Responsibility Part B: Criminalization in Principle 6: How Not to Think about Criminalization I: Restrictive Principles 7: How Not to Think about Criminalization II: Justificatory Principles 8: Political Liberalism and Criminalization 9: The Core Case of Criminalization Part C: Wrongs, Harms, and Consent 10: Harm: Its Currency and its Measure 11: The Value of Consent 12: Coercion and Consent 13: Error and Consent 14: Consent to Harm Part D: Further Reaches of the Criminal Law 15: Further Beyond Harm 16: Intentions and Inchoate Wrongdoing 17: Possession, Prohibition, and Protection ...
