Foundational texts in modern criminal law
edited by Markus D. Dubber.
- First edition.
- UK: OUP, 2014.
- 432 p.
Table of Contents: Introduction: Grounding criminal law : foundational texts in comparative-historical perspective / Markus D Dubber -- Chapter 1. Hobbes on "diffidence" and the criminal law Chapter 2. Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments : a mirror on the history of the foundations of modern criminal law Chapter 3. Blackstone's criminal law : common-law harmonization and legislative reform Chapter 4. Foundations of the legislative panopticon : Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation Chapter 5. Dignity, crime and punishment : a Kantian perspective Chapter 6. PJA von Feuerbach and his Textbook of the Common Penal Law Chapter 7. The contraction of crime in Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie Chapter 8. Mill's On Liberty and the modern "harm to others" principle Chapter 9. James Fitzjames Stephen : the punishment jurist Chapter 10. Pashukanis and public protection Chapter 11. Radbruch on the origins of criminal law : punitive interventions before sovereignty Chapter 12. The model penal code, legal process, and the alegitimacy of American penality Chapter 13. The modest ambition of Glanville Williams Chapter 14. The radical orthodoxy of Hart's Punishment and Responsibility Chapter 15. Criminal law as an efficiency-enhancing device : the contribution of Gary Becker Chapter 16. Foucault, criminal law, and the governmentalization of the state Chapter 17. Nils Christie : "Conflicts as Property" Chapter 18. Günther Jakobs's Feindstrafrecht : a dispassionate account