Criminalising Harmful Conduct The Harm Principle, its Limits and Continental Counterparts /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Peršak, Nina (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Criminal law.; Criminology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Criminal Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

What are the limits to criminalisation? Is insult harmful or just offensive? What is wrong with criminalising disrespect to state symbols? Should criminal codes be moral codes? Criminalising Harmful Conduct addresses the issue of legitimate criminalisation in a modern liberal society. It argues that...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Criminalisation
• Grounds for (Principles of) Criminalisation
• Harm Principle – A Comparative Analysis
• Continental Counterparts to the Anglo-American Concept of the Harm Principle
• Conclusion – Final Evaluation
• Some Criminological Afterthoughts.