The right not to be criminalized
Subtitle: demarcating criminal law's authority
By: Dennis J. Baker
Series: Applied legal philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781409427650; 9781409427667
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Moral and ethical aspects; Criminal liability; Criminal law; Philosophy; Law and ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Unprincipled criminalization; title: Taking harm seriously as a constitutionalization constraint; title: The limits of remote harm and endangerment criminalization; title: The harm principle vs. Kantian criteria for ensuring fair criminalization; title: The moral limits of consent as a defense to criminal harm-doing; title: The morality of criminalizing conventional wrongs.