The Limits of Criminal Law
eBook - ePub

The Limits of Criminal Law

A Comparative Analysis of Approaches to Legal Theorizing

  1. 158 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Limits of Criminal Law

A Comparative Analysis of Approaches to Legal Theorizing

About this book

This book compares the civil and common law approach to analyze the question - 'What sorts of conduct may the state legitimately make criminal?'. Through a comparative focus on an Australian and German context, this book utilizes interviews with Australian criminal law experts and contrasts them with the German model based on 'Rechtsgutstheorie'. By comparing the largely descriptive, criminology-based Australian approach with the more sophisticated German legal theory model the author finds the Australian approach to be suffering from a 'normative flaw', illustrated by the distinction of different approaches to the offences of incest, bestiality and possession of illicit drugs. Carl Constantin Lauterwein discovers that while there is strength in the common law approach of describing the possible reasons for criminalizing certain conduct, the approach could be significantly improved by scrutinizing the legitimacy of those reasons.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780367602895
eBook ISBN
9781317025351
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Mark Findlay
  6. Preface
  7. Abbreviations
  8. 1 Law, Limits and Legitimacy – Germany and Australia
  9. 2 The German Rechtsgutstheorie
  10. 3 The Approach to the Problem – A Problem Itself
  11. 4 The Discussion in Australia
  12. 5 Incest, Bestiality and Drugs – Legitimately Criminalized?
  13. 6 Conclusions
  14. Bibliography
  15. Appendix A
  16. Appendix B
  17. Index