Download or read book The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Volume 3 Harm to Self written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989-08-17 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tackles the riddles associated with the commonly proposed principle called 'legal paternalism'. It evaluates (and rejects) the principle that it can be right to impose coercion on a person 'for his own good', whatever his own wishes in the matter.
Download or read book Harm to Self written by Tucson Joel Feinberg Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986-07-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Joel Feinberg's highly regarded The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, a four-volume series in which Feinberg skillfully addresses a complex question: What kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizens? In Harm to Self, Feinberg offers insightful commentary into various notions attached to self-inflicted harm, covering such topics as legal paternalism, personal sovereignty and its boundaries, voluntariness and assumptions of risk, consent and its counterfeits, coercive force, incapacity, and choice of death.
Download or read book The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Harm to others written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four volumes address the question of the kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizens.
Download or read book The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Volume 3 Harm to Self written by Joel Feinberg and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1989-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moral Limits of Criminal Law is a four-volume work that answers the question: what kinds of conduct may a legislature make criminal without infringing the moral autonomy of individual citizens? Volume three, 'Harm to Self', tackles the riddles associated with the commonly proposed principle called 'legal Paternalism'. It evaluates (and rejects) the principle that it can be right to impose coercion on a person 'for his own good', whatever his own wishes in the matter. Chapters in this section discuss the concept of personal autonomy (or 'sovereignty'), voluntariness, and assumption of risk, as well as 'failures of consent' because of duress, fraud, and other factors incompatible with voluntary behaviour.
Download or read book Harm to Others written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in the four-volume series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law focuses on the "harm principle," the commonsense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of criminal legislation. Feinberg presents a detailed analysis of the concept and definition of harm and applies it to a host of practical and theoretical issues, showing how the harm principle must be interpreted if it is to be a plausible guide to the lawmaker.
Download or read book Offense to Others written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in Joel Feinberg's series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. Feinberg clarifies the concept of an "offended mental state" and further contrasts the concept of offense with harm. He also considers the law of nuisance as a model for statutes creating "morals offenses," showing its inadequacy as a model for understanding "profound offenses," and discusses such issues as obscene words and social policy, pornography and the Constitution, and the differences between minor and profound offenses.
Download or read book Harmless Wrongdoing written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th and final volume in the series defines the philosophical basis for criminalizing so-called 'victimless crimes', such as pornography and consensual sexual activity.
Download or read book The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Harmless wrongdoing written by Joel Feinberg and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N this volume, Feinberg focuses on the meanings of "interest," the relationship between interests and wants, and the distinction between want-regarding and ideal-regarding analyses on interest and hard cases for the applications of the concept of harm. Examples of the "hard cases" are harm to character, vicarious harm, and prenatal and posthumous harm. Feinberg also discusses the relationship between harm and rights, the concept of a victim, and the distinctions of various quantitative dimensions of harm, consent, and offense, including the magnitude, probability, risk, and "importance" of harm.
Download or read book The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Offense to others written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N this volume, Feinberg focuses on the meanings of "interest," the relationship between interests and wants, and the distinction between want-regarding and ideal-regarding analyses on interest and hard cases for the applications of the concept of harm. Examples of the "hard cases" are harm to character, vicarious harm, and prenatal and posthumous harm. Feinberg also discusses the relationship between harm and rights, the concept of a victim, and the distinctions of various quantitative dimensions of harm, consent, and offense, including the magnitude, probability, risk, and "importance" of harm.
Download or read book The Limits of Blame written by Erin I. Kelly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, Erin Kelly challenges the moralism behind harsh treatment of criminal offenders and calls into question our society’s commitment to mass incarceration. The Limits of Blame takes issue with a criminal justice system that aligns legal criteria of guilt with moral criteria of blameworthiness. Many incarcerated people do not meet the criteria of blameworthiness, even when they are guilty of crimes. Kelly underscores the problems of exaggerating what criminal guilt indicates, particularly when it is tied to the illusion that we know how long and in what ways criminals should suffer. Our practice of assigning blame has gone beyond a pragmatic need for protection and a moral need to repudiate harmful acts publicly. It represents a desire for retribution that normalizes excessive punishment. Appreciating the limits of moral blame critically undermines a commonplace rationale for long and brutal punishment practices. Kelly proposes that we abandon our culture of blame and aim at reducing serious crime rather than imposing retribution. Were we to refocus our perspective to fit the relevant moral circumstances and legal criteria, we could endorse a humane, appropriately limited, and more productive approach to criminal justice.
Download or read book Crime and Punishment written by Hyman Gross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery.
Download or read book Offense to Others written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, this book explicates the "offense principle," clarifies the concept of the "offended mental state," examines pornography and the Constitution, obscenity, and obscene words and social policy.
Download or read book Harmless Wrongdoing written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume of Feinberg's four-volume work, The Moral Limits of Criminal Law examines the philosophical basis for the criminalization of so-called "victimless crimes" such as ticket scalping, blackmail, consented-to exploitation of others, commercial fortune telling, and consensual sexual relations.
Download or read book Harm to Others written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in the four-volume series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law focuses on the "harm principle," the commonsense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of criminal legislation. Feinberg presents a detailed analysis of the concept and definition of harm and applies it to a host of practical and theoretical issues, showing how the harm principle must be interpreted if it is to be a plausible guide to the lawmaker.
Download or read book Harmless Wrongdoing The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth and final volume of Feinberg's magisterial work, The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law. In it Feinberg examines the philosophical basis for the criminalization of so-called 'victimless crimes' such as pornography and consensual sexual activity. The first three volumes of the work, Harm to Others, Offense to Others, and Harm to Self, are also available in paperback.
Download or read book Criminal Justice Ethics written by Cyndi Banks and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal Justice Ethics, Fourth Edition examines the criminal justice system through an ethical lens by identifying ethical issues in practice and theory, exploring ethical dilemmas, and offering suggestions for resolving ethical issues and dilemmas faced by criminal justice professionals. Bestselling author Cyndi Banks draws readers into a unique discussion of ethical issues by exploring moral dilemmas faced by professionals in the criminal justice system before examining the major theoretical foundations of ethics. This distinct organization allows readers to understand real life ethical issues before grappling with philosophical approaches to the resolution of those issues.
Download or read book Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities written by Heidi M. Hurd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages with the life and work of Larry Alexander to explore puzzles and paradoxes in legal and moral theory.
