Personal autonomy, the private sphere, and the criminal law: a comparative study

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Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Brants, C. H.
Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): England
Publication Information: Oxford ; Portland, Ore. : Hart Pub., 2001
Type: Book
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Online version: Personal autonomy, the private sphere, and the criminal law. Oxford ; Portland, Ore.: Hart Pub., 2001 (OCoLC)606545744 Online version: Personal autonomy, the private sphere, and the criminal law. Oxford ; Portland, Ore.: Hart Pub., 2001 (OCoLC)629923462

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XXV, 274 pages ; 24 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Personal autonomy, the private sphere, and the criminal law: a comparative study is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Responsable Person: edited by Peter Alldridge and Chrisje Brants.
Publication Date: 2001
Country/State: England
Number of Editions: 7 editions
First edition Date: 1999
Last edition Date: 2001
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KJC1676
Dewey Code: 342.4085
ISBN: 1901362825 9781901362824
OCLC: 48516014

Main Contents

Introduction / Peter Alldridge and Chrisje Brants
1. Legal Moralism or Paternalism? Tolerance or Indifference? Egalitarian Justice and the Ethics of Equal Concern / Koen Raes
2. Privacy, Autonomy and Criminal Justice Rights: Philosophical Preliminaries / Paul Roberts
3. The Public, the Private and the Significance of Payments / Peter Alldridge
4. Sovereignty, Criminal Law and the New European Context / Leonard F. M. Besselink
5. The State and the Nation's Bedrooms: The Fundamental Right of Sexual Autonomy / Chrisje Brants
6. Human Rights and the Criminalisation of Tradition: The Practices Formerly Known as “Female Circumcision” / Lois Bibbings
7. Denying Shoah / Bert Swart
8. Criminal Legislation in the Nineteenth Century: The Historic Roots of Criminal Law and Non-Intervention in the Netherlands / C. M. Pelser
9. Consent in Dutch Criminal Law / Constantijn Kelk
10. Dangerousness, Popular Knowledge and the Criminal Law: A Case Study of the Paedophile as Sociocultural Phenomenon / Richard Collier
11. The Fight Against Sex with Children / M. Moerings.

Summary Note

This book confronts the increasing range of legal and philosophical issues arising from the relationship between privacy and the criminal law.

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Personal autonomy, the private sphere, and the criminal law: a comparative study

Personal autonomy, the private sphere, and the criminal law: a comparative study