Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice (Discourses of Law)
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Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice (Discourses of Law)
Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice (Discourses of Law)

Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice (Discourses of Law)

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Penny Crofts (Author)  

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The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which criminal law communicates and sanctions particular models of wickedness. This book illuminates the intimate relationship of crime and definitions of wrongdoing. A central contention of the book is that if a criminal legal system empty of normative content is undesirable and implausible, then we must think critically about the types of models of wickedness that are communicated by criminal legal doctrine. Through historical and contemporary analysis of the legal concept of malice, Penny Crofts examines the types of models of wickedness that are established through criminal legal doctrine. The book draws upon literature, philosophy and jurisprudence to place wickedness at the centre of an account of criminal law. Arguing that the current dominant idea of wickedness communicated in criminal law lacks nuance and clarity, this book examines the implications in terms of the legal subject, social responsibility and the jurisdiction of the legal system. Through historical accounts of malice the book provides resources to enrich a contemporary jurisprudence of blaming. A fascinating contribution to the study of law, this book will interest criminal legal scholars who seek a deeper understanding of the complexity of the relationship between law and morality. The book also provides a resource for legal theorists and philosophers of wickedness, supplying a sustained example and analysis of the implications of types of models of culpability.
Penny Crofts
  • Contributor: Penny Crofts
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9781138915114
  • Number of Pages: 304
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 430
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2015-05-22
  • Series: Discourses of Law
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Penny Crofts

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