The Right Not to Be Criminalized : Demarcating Criminal Law's Authority.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Unprincipled Criminalization -- 2 Taking Harm Seriously as a Criminalization Constraint -- 3 The Limits of Remote Harm and Endangerment Criminalization -- 4 The Harm Principle vs. Kantian Criteria for Ensuring Fair Criminalization -- 5 The Moral Limits of Consent as a Defense to Criminal Harm-Doing -- 6 The Morality of Criminalizing Conventional Wrongs -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book presents arguments and proposals for constraining criminalization, with a focus on the legal limits of the criminal law. The book approaches the issue by showing how the moral criteria for constraining unjust criminalization can and has been incorporated into constitutional human rights and thus provides a legal right not to be unfairly criminalized.

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