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Criminalising Harmful Conduct
Nina Persak
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Description for Criminalising Harmful Conduct
Hardback. Explores the issue of legitimate criminalization in a modern, liberal society. This book argues that criminalization should be limited by normative principles, defining the substance of what can be legitimately proscribed. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 242 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
Dr. Nina Peršak’s work addresses the criteria for criminalisation – that is, the criteria that should be employed in determinations whether to prohibit conduct through the criminal law. It is explicitly normative in approach, examining what should be the proper basis for criminalisation, rather than what factors legislatures actually tend to consider in adopting criminal prohibitions. Its focus is on the Harm Principle, that has been developed in Anglo-American philosophy of criminal law and on how this principal might illuminate the Continental debate on criminalisation. As such, this is a work on normative criminal law theory. Hitherto, there has existed ... Read more
Dr. Nina Peršak’s work addresses the criteria for criminalisation – that is, the criteria that should be employed in determinations whether to prohibit conduct through the criminal law. It is explicitly normative in approach, examining what should be the proper basis for criminalisation, rather than what factors legislatures actually tend to consider in adopting criminal prohibitions. Its focus is on the Harm Principle, that has been developed in Anglo-American philosophy of criminal law and on how this principal might illuminate the Continental debate on criminalisation. As such, this is a work on normative criminal law theory. Hitherto, there has existed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
153
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387464039
SKU
V9780387464039
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