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Wickedness and Crime - Laws of Homicide and Malice (Hardcover, New)
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Wickedness and Crime - Laws of Homicide and Malice (Hardcover, New)
Series: Discourses of Law
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The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the
boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus
on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime:
Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which
criminal law communicates and sanctions particular models of
wickedness. This book illuminates the intimate relationship of
crime and definitions of wrongdoing. A central contention of the
book is that if a criminal legal system empty of normative content
is undesirable and implausible, then we must think critically about
the types of models of wickedness that are communicated by criminal
legal doctrine. Through historical and contemporary analysis of the
legal concept of malice, Penny Crofts examines the types of models
of wickedness that are established through criminal legal doctrine.
The book draws upon literature, philosophy and jurisprudence to
place wickedness at the centre of an account of criminal law.
Arguing that the current dominant idea of wickedness communicated
in criminal law lacks nuance and clarity, this book examines the
implications in terms of the legal subject, social responsibility
and the jurisdiction of the legal system. Through historical
accounts of malice the book provides resources to enrich a
contemporary jurisprudence of blaming. A fascinating contribution
to the study of law, this book will interest criminal legal
scholars who seek a deeper understanding of the complexity of the
relationship between law and morality. The book also provides a
resource for legal theorists and philosophers of wickedness,
supplying a sustained example and analysis of the implications of
types of models of culpability.
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