Rövid leírás:
Criminalizing Disobedience examines the laws that penalize conduct not because it is inherently wrongful, but because the government has prohibited it. Addressing important normative and conceptual questions raised by this topic across a range of legal domains, this book develops a philosophically sophisticated framework for evaluating such laws.
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Hosszú leírás:
Many laws penalize conduct not because it is inherently wrongful but because the government has prohibited it. Criminalizing Disobedience examines this important yet underexplored aspect of modern criminal law. Such „disobedience offenses” include: administration of justice crimes (contempt, obstruction of justice, perjury); failure-to-assist crimes (hindering prosecution, receiving stolen property, money laundering, failure to register or to report); regulatory offenses (involving, for example, environmental, drug, or medical device laws); preventive offenses (attempt, possession of weapons or drugs); and national security offenses (treason, espionage, export control and sanctions violations). What unifies these otherwise disparate offenses is that their core wrong lies in noncompliance with legal directives, not in unjustifiably harming or endangering others. The principal reason to refrain from such conduct is simply that the government has said not to do it. By contrast, laws against, say, murder or rape prohibit conduct that is morally wrongful even in the absence of legal prohibition.
This book addresses the important normative and conceptual questions these laws raise: How should disobedience be understood? Is it blameworthy to disobey the state? In what ways does the state criminalize and punish disobedience? What should be the limits to the state’s power to demand obedience and punish disobedience?
Criminalizing Disobedience explores these questions across a range of legal domains and develops a philosophically sophisticated framework for evaluating such laws. In the process, it sheds new light on longstanding questions of political obligation, criminalization, and punishment. It will be of interest to scholars of criminal law, the administrative state, law and philosophy, and political philosophy.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction
Criminal Wrongs and Moral Wrongs
Criminalizing Disobedience: General Considerations
Administration of Justice Crimes I: Offenses of Interference
Administration of Justice Crimes II: Offenses of Failure to Assist
Regulatory Offenses
Preventive Offenses I: Attempt
Preventive Offenses II: Possession
National Security Offenses I: Treason
National Security Offenses II: Espionage, Export Control, and Sanctions
Limits on Criminalization I: Rights and Liberty
Limits on Criminalization II: Proportionalities
Limits on Criminalization III: Standing to Command and Punish
