Regulating deviance : the redirection of criminalisation and the futures of criminal law / edited by Bernadette McSherry, Alan Norrie and Simon Bronitt.

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Publication details:
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Publishing, 2009.
Record id:
72339
Series:
Oñati international series in law and society.
Subject:
Criminal law.
Contents:
Part I. 1. Part II. 2. 3. 4. Part III. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part IV. 9. 10. Part V. 11. 12. Introduction
Regulating deviance : the redirection of criminalisation and the futures of criminal law
Shifts in criminal justice policies
Citizenship, authoritarianism and the changing shape of criminal law
Fixing the future? The pre-emptive turn in criminal justice
Victim-driven criminalisation? Some recent trends in the expansion of the criminal law
The quest for security
Criminal law, human rights and preventative justice
The theory of vulnerable autonomy and the legitimacy of civil preventative orders
Expanding the boundaries of inchoate crimes : the growing reliance on preparatory offences
Social science and criminal law reform : beyond mere opinion polling and penal populism
The scope and justification of sexual offences
Criminal law and private spaces : regulating homosexual acts in Singapore
Moral uncertainties of rape and murder : problems at the core of criminal law theory
Codification and the liberal promise
Criminal codes in the 21st century : the paradox of the liberal promise
Faultlines between guilt and punishment in Australia's model criminal code.
Note:
Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.
Papers originally presented at a workshop held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain in June 2007.
ISBN:
9781841138909
Phys. description:
x, 313 p. ; 24 cm