Liberal criminal theory
Subtitle: essays for Andreas von Hirsch
By: edited by A P Simester, Antje du Bois-Pedain and Ulfrid Neumann ; with translations by Antje du Bois-Pedain
Contributors: Von Hirsch, Andrew, honouree
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781849465144
Subjects: Criminal law; Philosophy
Description: "2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the grant at Runnymede of Magna Carta.The story of how Magna Carta came into being ,and has been interpreted since, and its impact on individual rights and constitutional developments has more twists and turns than any soap opera. The authors bring their legal experience and interpretative skills to uncover the original meaning of the liberties enshrined in Magna Carta, and to trace their development in later centuries up to the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America. By providing that the powers of the King were not unlimited, the Charter was groundbreaking, yet it was also a conservative document, following the form of Anglo-Saxon charters and seeking to return government to the ways of the Norman kings. This book tells the enthralling, ultimately inspirational, story of Magna Carta in a concise and readable fashion and will captivate laymen and lawyers alike."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Punishment paradigms and the role of the preventive state  -- Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner; title: Prevention, censure and responsibility: the recent debate on the purposes of punishment  -- Claus Roxin; title: Prevention with a moral voice  -- JR Edwards and AP Simester; title: The 'deserved' punishment  -- Ulfrid Neumann; title: After the crime: post-offence conduct and penal censure  -- Julian V Roberts and Hannah Maslen; title: Does punishment honour the offender?  -- Kurt Seelmann; title: Criminal law, crime and punishment as communication  -- Klaus Gunther; title: Can deserts be just in an unjust world?  -- Michael Tonry; title: 'Rights of others' in criminalisation theory  -- Tatjana Hornle; title: The harm principle and the protection of 'legal goods' (Rechtsguterschutz): a German perspective  -- Winfried Hassemer; title: 'Remote harms' and the two harm principles  -- RA Duff and SE Marshall; title: Using 'quality of life' to legitimate criminal law intervention: gauging gravity, defining disorder  -- Nina Persak; title: Criminal liability for offensive behaviour in public spaces  -- Wolfgang Wohlers; title: Can punishment be just?  -- Bernd Schunemann; title: Punishment and the ends of policing  -- John Kleinig; title: The place of criminal law theory in the constitutional state  -- Antje du Bois-Pedain; title: Criminal law theory and the limits of liberalism / Paul Roberts.