Making the modern criminal law : criminalization and civil order
Farmer, LindsayAuthor
Offering an historical and conceptual account of criminal law, this volume provides insight into how legal concepts such as responsibility, wrongdoing, intent, and punishment emerged out of debates and sensibilities from the 18th century to the present day, and explores how the state exerts its power and secures civil order through criminal law.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Offering an historical and conceptual account of criminal law, this volume provides insight into how legal concepts such as responsibility, wrongdoing, intent, and punishment emerged out of debates and sensibilities from the 18th century to the present day, and explores how the state exerts its power and secures civil order through criminal law.
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Criminal law
Criminal law
Criminology
Law - Great Britain
Law - Non-U.S.
Law, Politics & Government