The boundaries of the criminal law /
Duff
Duff, AntonyContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
This is the first book of a series on criminalization, examining the principles and goals that should guide what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. This volume studies the scope and boundaries of the criminal law, asking what principled limits might be placed on criminalizing behaviour.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This is the first book of a series on criminalization, examining the principles and goals that should guide what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. This volume studies the scope and boundaries of the criminal law, asking what principled limits might be placed on criminalizing behaviour.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Criminalization and the criminal process : prudential mercy as a limit on penal sanctions in an era of mass incarceration / Carol S. Steiker -- Preventive orders : a problem of undercriminalization? / Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner -- Perversions and subversions of criminal law / R.A. Duff -- Proactive forensic profiling : proactive criminalization? / Mireille Hildebrandt -- Horrific crime / John Stanton-Ife -- Criminalization and regulation / Victor Tadros -- Criminal law between public and private law / Markus D. Dubber -- Criminal wrongs in historical perspective / Lindsay Farmer -- Theories of criminalization and the limits of criminal law : a legal cultural approach / Kimmo Nuotio.
Criminal law
Law, Politics & Government
Law, General & Comparative