Overview
The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization, the series tackles the key questions at the heart of the issue: what principles and goals should guide legislators in deciding what to criminalize? How should criminal wrongs be classified and differentiated? How should law enforcement officials apply the law's specifications of offences?This, the fifth book in the series, offers a historical and conceptual account of the development of the modern criminal law in England and as it has spread to common law jurisdictions around the world. The book offers a historical perspective on the development of theories of criminalization. It shows how the emergence of theories of criminalization is inextricably linked to modern understandings of the criminal law as a conceptually distinct body of rules, and how this in turn has been shaped by the changing functions of criminal law as an instrument of government in the modern state.The book is structured in two main parts. The first traces the development of the modern law as a distinct, and conceptually distinct body of rules, looking in particular at ideas of jurisdiction, codification and responsibility. The second part then engages in detailed analysis of specific areas of criminal law, focusing on patterns of criminalization in relation to property, the person, and sexual conduct.
Full Product Details
Author: Lindsay Farmer (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.90cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.690kg
ISBN: 9780199568642
ISBN 10: 0199568642
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 21 January 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The broad appeal of this book, to criminal lawyers, theorists, and legal historians, is in keeping with its erudition and ambition. It is an important work that makes vital contributions to the various fields it so skillfully traverses. Chloe Kennedy, University of Endinburgh School of Law, Criminal Law and Philosophy
The broad appeal of this book, to criminal lawyers, theorists, and legal historians, is in keeping with its erudition and ambition. It is an important work that makes vital contributions to the various fields it so skillfully traverses. * Chloe Kennedy, University of Endinburgh School of Law, Criminal Law and Philosophy * This is an immensely useful survey of the changing orthodoxy of criminal legal thought, intended to explain how we arrived at the current preoccupations of criminal law theory, especially the concern with getting the law right in its identification, labelling and condemnation of true or core wrongs or harms. * Ngaire Naffine, Sydney Law Review * I very much enjoyed reading Making the Modern Criminal Law ... The monograph is an in-depth, persuasive engagement with, and challenge of, contemporary accounts of criminalisation. ... It provided a thorough engagement with key academic debates about criminalisation. * Penny Crofts, Criminal Justice *
I very much enjoyed reading Making the Modern Criminal Law ... The monograph is an in-depth, persuasive engagement with, and challenge of, contemporary accounts of criminalisation. ... It provided a thorough engagement with key academic debates about criminalisation. * Penny Crofts, Criminal Justice * This is an immensely useful survey of the changing orthodoxy of criminal legal thought, intended to explain how we arrived at the current preoccupations of criminal law theory, especially the concern with getting the law right in its identification, labelling and condemnation of true or core wrongs or harms. * Ngaire Naffine, Sydney Law Review * The broad appeal of this book, to criminal lawyers, theorists, and legal historians, is in keeping with its erudition and ambition. It is an important work that makes vital contributions to the various fields it so skillfully traverses. * Chloe Kennedy, University of Endinburgh School of Law, Criminal Law and Philosophy *
Author Information
Lindsay Farmer is Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order (Cambridge, 1997) and The Trial on Trial III: Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial (Hart, 2007), as well as a co-editor of the Criminalization series (OUP). He has published widely on different aspects of criminal law and legal theory, and is co-author of the popular jurisprudence textbook, Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts (2nd edn., Routledge, 2012)
