The Realm of Criminal Law

by R.A. Duff

We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered, principled, and restrained. The theory is based on an account of criminal law as a distinctive legal practice that functions to declare and define a set of public wrongs, and to call to formal public account...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199570191
• ISBN13: 9780199570195
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"