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The relationship between morality and criminal law must constantly evolve to meet the needs of changing times and circumstances. Social changes and new situations require new answers. This chapter will take the famous ‘Wolfenden Report’ (1957) as a...
- Aniceto Masferrer
- aniceto.masferrer@uv.es
- 2020
4. Dez. 2014 · Abstract. The fourth book in the series examines the political morality of the criminal law, exploring general principles and theories of criminalization. Chapters provide accounts of the criminal law in the light of ambitious theories about moral and political philosophy—republicanism and contractarianism, or reflect upon on the ...
1. Apr. 2023 · Criminal law conforms to the instrumental principle when the existence of its norms helps to prevent or ameliorate moral wrongdoing. Our argument is that the instrumental principle forms part of the internal morality of criminal law, and supplies a justification for criminal laws that depart from the mirror principle.
The Moral Prerequisites of the Criminal Law. Legal Moralism and the Problem of Mala Prohibita. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2023. Ambrose Y. K. Lee and. Alexander F. Sarch. Summary.
Since the criminal law is concerned only with acts, it is to be observed that a person's moral status, if it may be so termed, is not the object of criminal sanctions. It is no offence to be a dope addict, a prostitute, a liar, a sadist, or a prodigal, or to belong to any other allegedly morally reprehen- sible group.
20. Aug. 1987 · Harm to Others is the first volume in a four‐volume work entitled The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law that addresses the question, What acts may the state rightly make criminal? Feinberg identifies four liberty‐limiting, or coercion‐legitimizing, principles, each of which is the subject of a volume of his book.
9. Juni 2013 · It offers some reasons for thinking that there is a presumption in favor of the view that it is a proper function of the criminal law to enforce critical morality, including that part of critical morality that is not directly concerned with preventing harm or disrespect to others.
