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Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. It examines the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by documenting its intellectual and disciplinary history and provides a snapshot of contemporary work on criminal law within that historical and comparative context. Criminal law discourse has become, and will continue to become, more international and comparative, and in this sense global: the long-standing parochialism of criminal law scholarship and doctrine is giving way to a broad exploration of the foundations of modern criminal law. The present book advances this promising scholarly and doctrinal project by making available key texts, including several not previously available in English translation, from the common law and civil law traditions, accompanied by contributions from leading representatives of both systems.

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Author:   Markus D. Dubber (University of Toronto, University of Toronto, Professor of Law)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.30cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.944kg
ISBN:  

9780199673612

ISBN 10:   0199673616
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   21 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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"Introduction 1: Alice Ristroph: Hobbes on ""Diffidence"" and the Criminal Law 2: Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments:A Mirror on the History of the Foundations of Modern Criminal Law 3: Blackstone's Criminal Law: Common-Law Harmonization and Legislative Reform 4: Foundations of the Legislative Panopticon: Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation 5: Dignity, Crime, and Punishment: A Kantian Perspective 6: PJA von Feuerbach and his Textbook of the Common Penal Law 7: The Contraction of Crime in Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie 8: Mill's On Liberty and the Modern ""Harm to Others"" Principle 9: James Fitzjames Stephen: The Punishment Jurist 10: Pashukanis and Public Protection 11: Radbruch on the Origins of the Criminal Law: Punitive Interventions before Sovereignty 12: The Model Penal Code, Legal Process, and the Alegitimacy of American Penality 13: The Modest Ambition of Glanville Williams 14: The Radical Orthodoxy of Hart's Punishment and Responsibility 15: Criminal Law as an Efficiency-Enhancing Device: The Contribution of Gary Becker 16: Foucault, Criminal Law, and the Governmentalization of the State 17: Nils Christie: ""Conflicts as Property"" 18: Günther Jakobs's Feindstrafrecht: A Dispassionate Account Appendix A: Textbook of the Common Penal Law in Force in Germany Appendix B: Concerning the Need for a Right Violation in the Concept of a Crime, having particular Regard to the Concept of an Affront to Honour Appendix C: The Origin of Criminal Law in the Status of the Unfree Appendix D: On the Theory of Enemy Criminal Law"

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Markus D Dubber is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. Dubber's scholarship has focused on theoretical, comparative, and historical aspects of criminal law. His publications include Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach (co-authored with Tatjana Hörnle) (2014), Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (co-edited with Kevin Heller) (2010), Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment (co-edited with Lindsay Farmer) (2007), The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (co-edited with Mariana Valverde) (2006), The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government (2005), and Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights (2002).

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