How does the state, as a public authority, relate to those under its jurisdiction through the criminal law? Connecting the ways in which criminal lawyers, legal theorists, public lawyers and criminologists address questions of the criminal law’s legitimacy, contributors to this collection explore issues such as criminal law-making and jurisdiction; the political-ethical underpinnings of legitimate criminal law enforcement; the offence of treason; the importance of doctrinal guidance in the application of criminal law; the interface between tort and crime; and the purposes and mechanisms of state punishment. Overall, the collection aims to enhance and deepen our understanding of criminal law by conceiving of the practices of criminal justice as explicitly and distinctly embedded in the project of liberal self-governance.
| ISBN: | 9781509905133 |
| Publication date: | 4th May 2017 |
| Author: | Antje du (University of Cambridge, UK) Bois-Pedain |
| Publisher: | Hart Publishing an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics |
| Genres: |
Criminal justice law Criminal law: procedure and offences Constitutional and administrative law: general Constitution Methods, theory and philosophy of law Jurisprudence and general issues |