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Overcriminalization : the limits of the criminal law
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- Creator
- Douglas Husak
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- x, 231 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 019532871X, 9780195328714
- OCLC
- ocm85814170
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index.
- The amount of criminal law -- Too much punishment, too many crimes -- How more crimes produce injustice -- The content of new offenses -- An example of overcriminalization -- Internal constraints on criminalization -- The "general part" of criminal law -- From punishment to criminalization -- A right not to be punished? -- Malum prohibitum -- External constraints on criminalization -- Infringing the right not to be punished -- The devil in the details -- Crimes of risk prevention -- Alternative theories of criminalization -- Law and economics -- Utilitarianism -- Legal moralism