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Criminal law
In Dennis M. Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory. Blackwell. pp. 90–102 (1996)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: Why We Punish How We Punish What We Punish Whom We Punish Bibliography.
criminal law or Philosophy of criminal law retributivism, deflecting charges of vagueness criminal code ‐ exhaustive inventory of torture, mayhem, rape, castration and homicide criminal code, punishing, not just expected stuff ‐ murder, rape, theft, perjury, treason and the like philosophy of criminal law ‐ explaining “general” part of criminal law perennial doctrinal question of criminal law ‐ distinction between acts and omissions scarcely an issue in moral philosophy ‐ failing to find concrete expressions in criminal law
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