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  • Overcriminalization : the limits of the criminal law
    Husak, Douglas N., 1948-
    "The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment. Husak describes the phenomena in some detail and explores their relation, and why these trends produce massive ... injustice. His primary goal is to defend a set of constraints that limit the authority of states to enact and enforce penal offenses. The book urges the weight and relevance of this topic in the real world, and notes that most Anglo-American legal philosophers have neglected it. Husak's secondary goal is to situate this endeavor in criminal theory as traditionally construed. He argues that many of the resources to reduce the size and scope of the criminal law can be derived from within the criminal law itself-even though these resources have not been used explicitly for this purpose. Additional constraints emerge from a political view about the conditions under which important rights such as the right implicated by punishment-may be infringed. When conjoined, these constraints produce what Husak calls a minimalist theory of criminal liability. Husak applies these constraints to a handful of examples-most notably, to the justifiability of drug proscriptions"--Publisher's website
    Type of material - scient. monogr.
    Publication and manufacture - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008
    Language - english
    ISBN - 978-0-19-539901-1; 0-19-539901-3
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1413966

    Link(s):

    http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007009297.html

Library Call number – location, accession no. ... Copy status
Institute for Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana K 8074 available - outside loan, loan period: 14 days
Faculty of Law, Lj. Prosti pristop
PK HUSAK D. N. Overcriminalizat.
IN: 0137297 		available - outside loan, loan period: 1 months
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