Personal Autonomy, the Private Sphere and Criminal Law

A Comparative Study

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

This book contains original essays by a distinguished group of jurists from six different European countries confronting the increasing range of legal and philosophical issues arising from the relationship between privacy and the criminal law. The collection is particularly timely in light of the incorporation into English law of the European Convention on Human Rights. It compares legal cultures and underlying assumptions with regard to the private sphere,personal autonomy and the supposed justifications for State interference through criminalization and the implementation of substantive criminal law. The book moves from treatment of general ideas like the relationship between sovereignty, the nation-state and substantive criminal law in the new European context, (with its concomitant aspiration towards the establishment of transnational morality) to more detailed consideration of specific areas of substantive law and procedure, viewed from a range of perspectives. Areas considered include euthanasia, surrogacy, female genital mutilation and sado-masochism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-03-19
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:622 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781901362824

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Straffrätt: process och brott inom Juridik
Rättssystem inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Peter Alldridge is a Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. Chrisje Brants is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Utrecht,the Netherlands.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction, Peter Alldridge and Chrisje Brants; legal moralism or paternalism? tolerance or indifference? egalitarian justice and the ethics of equal concern, Koen Raes; privacy, autonomy and criminal justice rights - philosophical preliminaries, Paul Roberts; the public, the private and the significance of payments, Peter Alldridge; sovereignty, criminal law and the new European context, Leonard F.M. Besselink; the state and the nation's bedrooms - the fundamental right of sexual autonomy, Chrisje Brants; human rights and the criminalisation of tradition - the practices formerly known as "female circumcision", Lois Bibbings; denying Shoah, Bert Swart; criminal legislation in the nineteenth century - the historic roots of criminal law and non-intervention in the Netherlands, C.M. Pelser; consent in Dutch criminal law, Constantijn Kelk; dangerousness, popular knowledge and the criminal law - a case study of the paedophile as sociocultural phenomenon, Richard Collier; the right against sex with children, M. Moerings.