Subjects:

Criminal Law

Contents:

Introduction - perspectives on criminal law: doctrine

setting limits to criminal law - the ""harm"" thesis

attacks upon the doctrinal view from inside and outsde

sociolegal approaches

economics of criminal law

critical legal studies

broadening the discipline. Part 2 Arguing criminal law: the nature and significance of the appellate judicial process in criminal cases

readings of doctrinal decision making

systemic bias in construing prostitution statues

pairing arguments

concluding - what can a liberal judge do in criminal law? Part 3 Personhood and responsibility: the borderland of juridical personhood (i)

the borderland of juridical personhood (ii)

battered women who kill. Part 4 Privacy: the core idea

historical development - honour

historical development - privacy

why privacy now?

discriminating privacies

the significance of privacy in substantive English criminal law

the significance of privacy in procedural criminal law

the instrusiveness and duration of a violation of privacy

sexual privacy and ""sexual McCarthyism"". Part 5 Internationalization of criminal law: globalization, boundaries and offences

changing the political unit - the nation state and its successors

jurisdiction

The Sexual Offences (Conspiracy and Incitement) Act 1996

reacting to sexual tourism

extradition. Part 6 The market and the criminal law: the market

how a criminal law of markets might look

guaranteeing the unit of exchange

manipulation and exploitation of markets

geographical boundaries upon a market

unacceptable markets

the limits of commodification. Part 7 Drugs: history

unlawful dealing in drugs as a form of exploitation

responsibility of the various participants

decriminialization.

This work seeks, in a range of areas of law, to present a pragmatic, liberal view of the criminal law - to give historical accounts without falling into determinism, to engage in doctrinal analysis without regarding it as compelling, and to compare without comparison becoming competition.