The Realm of Criminal Law

We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a theory of criminal law, as an institution that can play an important but limited role in the civil order of a political community: it shows how criminal law could be ordered, principled, and restrained.

In his magnificent new work, The Realm of Criminal Law, Antony Duff has important things to say about a host of central issues in the philosophy of criminal law.

Auteur
R A Duff is Professor Emeritus at the University of Stirling, and a former professor in the University of Minnesota Law School, where he helped to create the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. He works in the philosophy of criminal law, and has published on criminal punishment (Trials and Punishments, 1986; Punishment, Communication, and Community, 2001), on the structures of criminal liability (Intention, Agency, and Criminal Liability, 1990; Criminal Attempts, 1996; Answering for Crime, 2007), and on the criminal process (The Trial on Trial, co-authored, 2007). He has led major research projects on 'The Trial on Trial', and on Criminalization.

Contenu

• 1: Criminal Law

• 2: Legal Moralism and Public Wrongs

• 3: Citizenship and the Criminal Law

• 4: Civil Order and the Public Realm

• 5: A Liberal Republic and its Criminal Law

• 6: Master Principles of Criminalization?

• 7: Criminalization and Civil Order

• 8: Conclusion