Overcriminalization
Subtitle: the limits of the criminal law
By: Douglas Husak.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195328714
Subjects: Criminal law -- United States -- Philosophy
Other titles: Over criminalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The amount of criminal law; title: Too much punishment, too many crimes; title: How more crimes produce injustice; title: The content of new offenses; title: An illustration of overcriminalization; title: Internal constraints on criminalization; title: The general part of criminal law; title: From punishment to criminalization; title: A right not to be punished?; title: Malum prohibitum; title: External constraints on criminalization; title: Infringing the right not to be punished; title: The devil in the details; title: Crimes of risk-creation; title: Alternative theories of criminalization; title: Law and economics; title: Utilitarianism; title: Legal moralism.