Frontiers of criminality
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Frontiers of criminality
(Modern legal studies)
Sweet & Maxwell, 1995
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Includes index
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Description
Frontiers of Criminality provides original insights into why and how forms of behaviour become, or stop being criminal. As criminal law is being seen as increasingly contextual, students of the subject will benefit from the book's exploration of how broad social and policy considerations underlie the criminalisation and decriminalisation of certain types of behaviour.
Table of Contents
Contingency and Criminalisation. Crimes without frontiers. The War Crimes Act 1991. State reaction to conscientious objection. The serious fraud office. Cry in the dark. The criminalisation of offences against intellectual property. Criminalising the trader to protect the consumer. Regulating sexual offences within the home. Modernity, knowledge and the criminalisation of drug usage. Squatting and the recriminalisation of trespass.
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