The right not to be criminalized : demarcating criminal law's authority /

The right not to be criminalized : demarcating criminal law's authority /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Baker, Dennis J.
Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Description:	xi, 297 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Applied legal philosophy Applied legal philosophy
Subject:	Criminal law -- Philosophy. Law and ethics. Criminal liability -- Philosophy. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects. Criminal law -- Philosophy. Law and ethics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8443861

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ISBN:	9781409427650 (hardback : alk. paper) 140942765X (hardback : alk. paper) 9781409427667 (ebook) 1409427668 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-284) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Unprincipled criminalization
2. Taking harm seriously as a criminalization constraint
3. The limits of remote harm and endangerment criminalization
4. The harm principle vs. Kantian criteria for ensuring fair criminalization
5. The moral limits of consent as a defense to criminal harm-doing
6. The morality of criminalizing conventional wrongs
7. Conclusion