Offense to Others

Offense to Others
Author: Joel Feinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 1988-01-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198020546

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The second volume in Joel Feinberg's series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. Feinberg clarifies the concept of an "offended mental state" and further contrasts the concept of offense with harm. He also considers the law of nuisance as a model for statutes creating "morals offenses," showing its inadequacy as a model for understanding "profound offenses," and discusses such issues as obscene words and social policy, pornography and the Constitution, and the differences between minor and profound offenses.


Harm to Others
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Joel Feinberg
Categories: Crimes without victims
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This book focuses on the 'harm principle', the common-sense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of crimin
Offense to Others
Language: en
Pages: 351
Authors: Joel Feinberg
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The second volume in Joel Feinberg's series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that pre
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Offense to others
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Joel Feinberg
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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N this volume, Feinberg focuses on the meanings of "interest," the relationship between interests and wants, and the distinction between want-regarding and idea
Harmless Wrongdoing
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Joel Feinberg
Categories: Crimes without victims
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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The 4th and final volume in the series defines the philosophical basis for criminalizing so-called 'victimless crimes', such as pornography and consensual sexua
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Harm to others
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Joel Feinberg
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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These four volumes address the question of the kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizens.