The Realm of Criminal Law
We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered, principled, and restrained. The theory is based on an account of criminal law as a distinctive legal practice that functions to declare and define a set of public wrongs, and to call to formal public account those whocommit such wrongs; an account of the role that such practice can play in a democratic republic of free and equal citizens; and an account of the central features of such a political…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-105858-5
- EAN: 9780191058585
- Produktnummer: 27704988
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'263 KB
Über den Autor
R A Duff is Professor Emeritus at the University of Stirling, and a former professor in the University of Minnesota Law School, where he helped to create the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. He works in the philosophy of criminal law, and has published on criminal punishment (Trials and Punishments, 1986; Punishment, Communication, and Community, 2001), on the structures of criminal liability (Intention, Agency, andCriminal Liability, 1990; Criminal Attempts, 1996; Answering for Crime, 2007), and on the criminal process (The Trial on Trial, co-authored, 2007). He has led major research projects on 'The Trial on Trial', and on Criminalization.
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