Crimes Harms and Wrongs

When should we make use of the criminal law? Crimes Harms and Wrongs offers a philosophical analysis of the nature and ethical limits of criminalisation. The authors explore the scope of harm-based prohibitions proscriptions of offensive behaviour and 'paternalistic' prohibitions aimed at preventing self-harm developing guiding principles for these various grounds of state prohibition. Both authors have written extensively in the field. They have produced an integrated accessible philosophically-sophisticated account that will be of great interest to legal academics philosophers and advanced students alike.