Overcriminalization The Limits of the Criminal Law

Name: Overcriminalization The Limits of the Criminal Law
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ISBN: 9780195399011

ISBN-10: 0195399013

ISBN-13: 9780195399011

Edition: 2010

Authors: Douglas Husak

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Husak's primary goal is to defend a set of constraints to limit the authority of states to enact and enforce criminal offenses. In addition, Husak situates this endeavor in criminal theory as traditionally construed. This book urges the importance of this topic in the real world, while most Anglo-American legal philosophers have neglected it.

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English




The Amount of Criminal Law



Too Much Punishment, Too Many Crimes



How Mare Crimes Produce Injustice



The Content of New Offenses



An Example of Overcriminalization



Internal Constraints on Criminalization



The "General Part" of Criminal Law



From Punishment to Criminalization



A Right Not to Be Punished?



Malum Prohibitum



External Constraints on Criminalization



Infringing the Right Not to Be Punished



The Devil in the Details



Crimes of Risk Prevention



Alternative Theories of Criminalization



Law and Economics



Utilitarianism



Legal Moralism


Table of Cases


Bibliography


Index