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Criminalization: The Political Morality of the Criminal Law

Criminalization: The Political Morality of the Criminal Law

Author: R A Duff; Lindsay Farmer; S E Marshall; Massimo Renzo; Victor Tadros
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198726357
Published In: December 2015
Format: Hardback , 336 pages
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The fourth volume in a ground-breaking series on criminalization - a major, neglected topic in the theory of criminal law
Examines the questions fundamental to a complete theory of criminal law
Includes a detailed introduction providing an overview of the central debates key to developing a general theory of criminalization
An interdisciplinary study that deepens legal, sociological, and philosophical understanding of the issues surrounding criminalization

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 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 success of important theories of criminalization by viewing them in a novel light. Ideas that are fundamental to any complete theory of the criminal law - liberty, harm, and the effect on victims - are investigated in depth. Sociological investigation of the criminal law grounds a critical investigation into the principles of criminalization, both as a legislative matter, and with respect to criminalization practices, in contemporary and historical contexts.

The volume broadens our conceptions of the theory of criminalization, and clarifies the role of the series in the development of this theory. It is essential reading for all interested in legal, political, and social theories of criminalization.

Readership: Scholars and advanced students of criminal law, criminology, and moral and political philosophy.

1: R A Duff, Lindsay Farmer, S E Marshall, Massimo Renzo, Victor Tadros: Introduction: Towards a Theory of Criminalization?
2: James Chalmers and Fiona Leverick: Quantifying Criminalization
3: Lindsay Farmer: Criminal Law as an Institution: Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Criminalization
4: Jeremy Horder: Bureaucratic 'Criminal' Law: Too Much of a Bad Thing?
5: Philip Pettit: Criminalization in Republican Theory
6: Susan Dimock: Contractarian Criminal Law Theory and Mala Prohibita Offenses
7: Michael S. Moore: Liberty's Constraints on What Should be Made Criminal
8: Douglas Husak: Polygamy: A Novel Test for a Theory of Criminalization
9: Anthony Bottoms: Civil Peace and Criminalization
10: Loïc Wacquant: Marginality, Ethnicity, and Penality: A Bourdieusian Perspective on Criminalization
11: S E Marshall: It Isn't Just About You' - Victims of Crime and Their Associated Duties

R.A. Duff is a Professor Emeritus in the Philosophy Department at the University of Stirling, and holds the Russell and Elizabeth Bennett Chair at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Lindsay Farmer is Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.

S.E. Marshall is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Massimo Renzo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.

Victor Tadros is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick.

Contributors:
Anthony Bottoms is Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield.
James Chalmers is Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.
Susan Dimock is Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada.
R A Duff is a Professor Emeritus in the Philosophy Department at the University of Stirling, and holds the Russell and Elizabeth Bennett Chair at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Lindsay Farmer is Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.
Jeremy Horder is Professor of Criminal Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College. Oxford.
Douglas Husak is Professor of Philosophy and Law at Rutgers University.
Fiona Leverick is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Glasgow.
S.E. Marshall is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Michael Moore is the holder of the Walgreen Chair at the University of Illinois; he is also Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor in the Center for Advanced Study at the Urbana-Champaign campus the University of Illinois.
Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University.
Massimo Renzo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
Victor Tadros is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick.
Loïc Wacquant is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris.