The moral limits of the criminal law, Volume 2: Offense to others
The author focuses on the `offence principle', the principle that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. He examines the differences between minor and profound offences as well as the conceptual, moral, and judicial problems raised by...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
1988, 1988
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | The author focuses on the `offence principle', the principle that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. He examines the differences between minor and profound offences as well as the conceptual, moral, and judicial problems raised by obscenity, pornography, and 'dirty' words |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 328 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780199785872 0199785872 |