Wickedness and Crime

The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which criminal law communicates and sanctions particular models of wickedness.

A fascinating contribution to the study of law, this book will interest criminal legal scholars who seek a deeper understanding of the complexity of the relationship between law and morality, as well as providing a resource for legal theorists and philosophers of wickedness.

Auteur

Penny Crofts

Contenu

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Medieval malice: disorder and purity of heart; Chapter 3 The poisoned apple of malice; Chapter 4 Sir James Fitzjames Stephen and monstrous malice; Chapter 5 The malevolent outlaw of law; Chapter 6 The negligence of; Lavender; Chapter 7 Conclusion;