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Overcriminalization : the limits of the criminal law / by Douglas Husak.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: x, 231 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780195399011
  • 0195399013
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF9223 .H87 2008
Contents:
The amount of criminal law : Too much punishment, too many crimes ; How more crimes produce injustice ; The content of new offenses ; An example of overcriminalization -- Internal constraints on criminalization : The "general part" of criminal law ; From punishment to criminalization ; A right not to be punished? ; Malum prohibitum -- External constraints on criminalization : Infringing the right not to be punished ; The devil in the details ; Crimes of risk prevention -- Alternative theories of criminalization : Law and economics ; Utilitarianism ; Legal moralism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index.

The amount of criminal law : Too much punishment, too many crimes ; How more crimes produce injustice ; The content of new offenses ; An example of overcriminalization -- Internal constraints on criminalization : The "general part" of criminal law ; From punishment to criminalization ; A right not to be punished? ; Malum prohibitum -- External constraints on criminalization : Infringing the right not to be punished ; The devil in the details ; Crimes of risk prevention -- Alternative theories of criminalization : Law and economics ; Utilitarianism ; Legal moralism.

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