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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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Criminalization series
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Table of Contents:
- 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