The realm of criminal law /

We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a theory of criminal law, as an institution that can play an important but limited role in the civil order of a political community: it shows how criminal l...

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Main Author: Duff, Antony
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018
Edition:First edition
Series:Criminalization series
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-354) and index 
505 0 |a Introduction: A theory of criminalization? -- Criminal law -- Legal moralism and public wrongs -- Citizenship and the criminal law -- Civil order and the public realm -- A liberal republic and its criminal law -- Master principles of criminalization? -- Criminalization and civil order 
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