Foundational texts in modern criminal law /
This volume presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. It aims to contribute to the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by documenting its intellectual and disciplinary histo...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Grounding criminal law : foundational texts in comparative-historical perspective / Markus D Dubber
- Hobbes on "diffidence" and the criminal law / Alice Ristroph
- Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments : a mirror on the history of the foundations of modern criminal law / Bernard E Harcourt
- Blackstone's criminal law : common-law harmonization and legislative reform / Simon Stern
- Foundations of the legislative panopticon : Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation / Guyora Binder
- Dignity, crime and punishment : a Kantian perspective / Meir Dan-Cohen
- PJA von Feuerbach and his Textbook of the Common Penal Law / Tatjana Hörnle
- The contraction of crime in Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie / Alan Brudner
- Mill's On Liberty and the modern "harm to others" principle / Bernard E Harcourt
- James Fitzjames Stephen : the punishment jurist / Marc O DeGirolami
- Pashukanis and public protection / Peter Ramsay
- Radbruch on the origins of criminal law : punitive interventions before sovereignty / Mireille Hildebrandt
- The model penal code, legal process, and the alegitimacy of American penality / Markus D Dubber
- The modest ambition of Glanville Williams / Lindsay Farmer
- The radical orthodoxy of Hart's Punishment and Responsibility / Malcolm Thorburn
- Criminal law as an efficiency-enhancing device : the contribution of Gary Becker / Alon Harel
- Foucault, criminal law, and the governmentalization of the state / Pat O'Malley and Mariana Valverde
- Nils Christie : "Conflicts as Property" / Vidar Halvorsen
- Günther Jakobs's Feindstrafrecht : a dispassionate account / Daniel Ohana
- Textbook of the common penal law in force in Germany / Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach
- Concerning the need for a right violation in the concept of a crime, having particular regard to the concept of an affront to honour / Johann Michael Franz Birnbaum
- The origin of criminal law in the status of the unfree / Gustav Radbruch
- On the theory of enemy criminal law / Günther Jakobs