Right not to be criminalized demarcating criminal law`s authority
Baker, Dennis J
Right not to be criminalized demarcating criminal law`s authority - England Ashgate 2011 - xi,297p. - Applied legal philosophy .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unprincipled criminalization -- The problem: unprincipled criminalization -- The right not to be criminalized -- The retributive foundations of individualized criminalization -- Principled criminalization -- The structure of this book -- Taking harm seriously as a fairness constraint -- Harm and wrongdoing -- Feinberg's account of objectively wrongful harm -- Wronging non-human animals -- Non-objective and objective conceptions of harm -- Constitutionalizing the harm principle -- Wrongful harm as a normative justification for penal detention -- Distinguishing criminal harm from private law harm: culpability and collective enforcement -- The moral dimensions of constitutional rights -- Harm as a constitutional requirement -- Can courts determine objective accounts of harm? -- Drawing the line -- The limits of remote harm and endangerment criminalization -- Criminal responsibility for the acts of another -- Empirical evidence of remote harmfulness -- Fairly imputing aggregate harm to individuals -- Endangerment as a justification for criminalizing gun possession -- Conclusion -- The harm principle vs. Kantian criteria for ensuring fair criminalization -- Kantian criteria for ensuring fair criminalization -- Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative -- Dan-Cohen and Ripstein's criticisms of the harm principle -- Harm and wrongdoing to non-humans -- Ripstein's sovereignty principle -- The moral limits of consent as a defense to criminal harm doing -- Objectivity and consent -- Harm and consent: stubborn counterexamples -- Objectivity and the limits of consent in R.V. Konzani -- Objectivity and wanton use of humans -- Other normative considerations -- Criminalizing harmless wrongs -- The hollowness of Feinberg's offense principle -- Feinberg's mediating maxims and critical morality -- The vacuity of moral realism as an explanation of criminalization's normativity -- Conventionally contingent harms -- The normative badness of offense doing -- The wrongness of conventionally contingent bad acts -- Conclusion.
9781409427650
2010048244
Criminal law--Philosophy.
Law and ethics.
Criminal liability--Philosophy.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects.
K5018 / .B34 2011
345.001 / BA-R
Right not to be criminalized demarcating criminal law`s authority - England Ashgate 2011 - xi,297p. - Applied legal philosophy .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unprincipled criminalization -- The problem: unprincipled criminalization -- The right not to be criminalized -- The retributive foundations of individualized criminalization -- Principled criminalization -- The structure of this book -- Taking harm seriously as a fairness constraint -- Harm and wrongdoing -- Feinberg's account of objectively wrongful harm -- Wronging non-human animals -- Non-objective and objective conceptions of harm -- Constitutionalizing the harm principle -- Wrongful harm as a normative justification for penal detention -- Distinguishing criminal harm from private law harm: culpability and collective enforcement -- The moral dimensions of constitutional rights -- Harm as a constitutional requirement -- Can courts determine objective accounts of harm? -- Drawing the line -- The limits of remote harm and endangerment criminalization -- Criminal responsibility for the acts of another -- Empirical evidence of remote harmfulness -- Fairly imputing aggregate harm to individuals -- Endangerment as a justification for criminalizing gun possession -- Conclusion -- The harm principle vs. Kantian criteria for ensuring fair criminalization -- Kantian criteria for ensuring fair criminalization -- Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative -- Dan-Cohen and Ripstein's criticisms of the harm principle -- Harm and wrongdoing to non-humans -- Ripstein's sovereignty principle -- The moral limits of consent as a defense to criminal harm doing -- Objectivity and consent -- Harm and consent: stubborn counterexamples -- Objectivity and the limits of consent in R.V. Konzani -- Objectivity and wanton use of humans -- Other normative considerations -- Criminalizing harmless wrongs -- The hollowness of Feinberg's offense principle -- Feinberg's mediating maxims and critical morality -- The vacuity of moral realism as an explanation of criminalization's normativity -- Conventionally contingent harms -- The normative badness of offense doing -- The wrongness of conventionally contingent bad acts -- Conclusion.
9781409427650
2010048244
Criminal law--Philosophy.
Law and ethics.
Criminal liability--Philosophy.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects.
K5018 / .B34 2011
345.001 / BA-R