A P Simester is Professor of Law and Provost's Chair at the National University of Singapore. Andreas von Hirsch is Honorary Professor at the Law Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, and Emeritus Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge.

...this elegant, closely argued and convincing book is of great value and can be expected to be of lasting influence.

• Part I: Criminalisation and Wrongdoing1. The Nature of Criminalisation 2. Wrongfulness and Reasons Part II: Harm3. Crossing the Harm Threshold 4. Remote Harms: the Need for an Extended Harm Principle 5. On the Imputation of Remote Harms Part III: Offence6. Rethinking the Offence Principle 7. The Distinctiveness of the Offence Principle 8. Mediating Principles for Offensive Conduct Part IV: Paternalism9. Reflections on Paternalistic Prohibitions 10. Some Varieties of Indirect Paternalism Part V: Drawing Back from Criminal Law11. Mediating Considerations and Constraints 12. Two-step Criminalisation

A P Simester is Professor of Law and Provost's Chair at the National University of Singapore. Andreas von Hirsch is Honorary Professor at the Law Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, and Emeritus Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge.

...this elegant, closely argued and convincing book is of great value and can be expected to be of lasting influence.

• Part I: Criminalisation and Wrongdoing1. The Nature of Criminalisation 2. Wrongfulness and Reasons Part II: Harm3. Crossing the Harm Threshold 4. Remote Harms: the Need for an Extended Harm Principle 5. On the Imputation of Remote Harms Part III: Offence6. Rethinking the Offence Principle 7. The Distinctiveness of the Offence Principle 8. Mediating Principles for Offensive Conduct Part IV: Paternalism9. Reflections on Paternalistic Prohibitions 10. Some Varieties of Indirect Paternalism Part V: Drawing Back from Criminal Law11. Mediating Considerations and Constraints 12. Two-step Criminalisation

A P Simester is Professor of Law and Provost's Chair at the National University of Singapore. Andreas von Hirsch is Honorary Professor at the Law Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, and Emeritus Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge.

...this elegant, closely argued and convincing book is of great value and can be expected to be of lasting influence.

• Part I: Criminalisation and Wrongdoing1. The Nature of Criminalisation 2. Wrongfulness and Reasons Part II: Harm3. Crossing the Harm Threshold 4. Remote Harms: the Need for an Extended Harm Principle 5. On the Imputation of Remote Harms Part III: Offence6. Rethinking the Offence Principle 7. The Distinctiveness of the Offence Principle 8. Mediating Principles for Offensive Conduct Part IV: Paternalism9. Reflections on Paternalistic Prohibitions 10. Some Varieties of Indirect Paternalism Part V: Drawing Back from Criminal Law11. Mediating Considerations and Constraints 12. Two-step Criminalisation