Incivilities - Regulating Offensive Behaviour

Prohibitions against offensive conduct have existed for many years, but their extent and use was on the decline. Recently, however, several jurisdictions, including England and Wales, have moved to broaden the reach and severity of measures against incivilities. New measures include expanded targeting of unpopular forms of public conduct, such as begging, and legislation authorising magistrates to issue prohibitory orders against anti-social behaviour. Because these quality-of-life prohibitions can be so restrictive of personal liberties, it is essential to develop adequate guiding and limiting principles concerning State intervention in this area.This book addresses the legal regulation of offensive behaviour. Topics include: the nature of offensiveness; the grounds and permissible scope of criminal prohibitions against offensive behaviour; the legitimacy of civil orders against incivilities; and identifying the social trends that have generated current political interest in preventing incivilities through intervention of law.These questions are addressed by eleven distinguished philosophers, criminal law theorists, criminologists, and sociologists. In an area that has attracted much public comment but little theoretical analysis to date, these essays develop a fuller conceptual framework for debating questions about the legal regulation of offensive behaviour.>

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas von Hirsch, A P Simester, A. P. Simester, Andrew Hirsch Simester
• Assisted by: Andreas von Hirsch (Editor), Andrew Von Hirsch (Editor), Hirsch Andreas von (Editor), A P Simester (Editor), Andrew Simester (Editor), Andrew von Hirsch (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2006
• EAN: 9781841134994
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-499-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Studies in Penal Theory and Pe; Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; England, Wales, LAW / Criminal Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Criminal law & procedure, Social Law, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Social law and Medical law