Wrongs and Crimes is something rare in moral philosophy and rarer still in the moral philosophy of punishment: a book whose good sense keeps pace with its seemingly limitless cleverness. Threaded through the intricate embroidery of cases are simple, powerful, and humane ideas.

Autorentext

Victor Tadros is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick. He works in the philosophy of criminal law, just war theory, and on a range of issues in moral, legal and political philosophy. He is the author of Criminal Responsibility (OUP, 2005) and, with Antony Duff, Lindsay Farmer and Sandra Marshall, The Trial on Trial vol.3: Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial (Hart, 2007). His most recent book is The Ends of Harm: The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law (OUP, 2011). He has edited seven books, including four in the Criminalization series. He currently holds a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on the ethics of armed conflict. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy.

Klappentext

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization, the series tackles the key questions at the heart of the issue: what principles and goals should guide legislators in deciding what to criminalize? How should criminal wrongs be classified and differentiated? How should law enforcement officials apply the law's specifications of offences? The sixth volume in the series offers a philosophical investigation of the relationship between moral wrongdoing and criminalization. Considering they justification of punishment, the nature of harm, the importance of autonomy, inchoate wrongdoing, the role of consent, and the role of the state, the book provides an account of the nature of moral wrong doing, the sources of wrong doing, why wrong doing is the central target of the criminal law, and the ways in which criminalization of non-wrongful conduct might be permissible.

Zusammenfassung
Offering a philosophical investigation of the relationship between moral wrongdoing and criminalization, this book provides an account of the nature of moral wrongdoing, the sources of moral wrongdoing, why wrongdoing is the central target of criminal law, and the ways in which criminalization of non-wrongful conduct might be permissible.

Inhalt

• 1: Introduction
• Part A: Punishing Wrongs
• 2: Wrongness and Responses
• 3: Wrongdoing and Respecting Value
• 4: The Punitive Response
• 5: Personal Practical Responsibility
• Part B: Criminalization in Principle
• 6: How Not to Think about Criminalization I: Restrictive Principles
• 7: How Not to Think about Criminalization II: Justificatory Principles
• 8: Political Liberalism and Criminalization
• 9: The Core Case of Criminalization
• Part C: Wrongs, Harms, and Consent
• 10: Harm: Its Currency and its Measure
• 11: The Value of Consent
• 12: Coercion and Consent
• 13: Error and Consent
• 14: Consent to Harm
• Part D: Further Reaches of the Criminal Law
• 15: Further Beyond Harm
• 16: Intentions and Inchoate Wrongdoing
• 17: Possession, Prohibition, and Protection