Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law

Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law
Author: David Richards
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1986
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780847675258

Among the most commonly argued legal questions are those involving "victimless" crimes--consensual adult sexual relations (including homosexuality and prostitution), the use of drugs, and the right to die. How can they be distinguished from proper crimes, and how can we, as citizens, judge the complex moral and legal issues that such questions entail? David Richards, a teacher of law in the areas of constitutional and criminal law, and a moral and legal philosopher concerned with the investigation of legal concepts, applies an interdisciplinary approach to the question of overcriminalization, he draws on legal and philosophical arguments and links the subject to history, psychology, social science, and literature. To demonstrate how gross and unjust overcriminalization has developed, Professor Richards explores basic assumptions that often underlie the common American sense of proper criminalization.

Overcriminalization

Overcriminalization
Author: Douglas Husak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008-01-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198043996

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.

Ethics and Sex

Ethics and Sex
Author: Igor Primoratz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134871252

Ethics and Sex presents a systematic study of the nature and moral significance of human sexuality and of the major issues in sexual morality. The book is divided into two main parts. Part One gives a critical analysis of the key conceptions of human sexuality. Part Two discusses the most important issues in sexual morality: monogamy; adultery; prostitution; homosexuality; paedophilia; sexual harassment and rape. In this controversial and accessible book, the author demonstrates that many of the prohibitions that make up conventional sexual morality cannot withstand critical scrutiny.

Criminal Law Reform Now, Volume 2

Criminal Law Reform Now, Volume 2
Author: Melissa Bone
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509959203

If you could change one part of the criminal law, what would it be? Following the success of the 1st volume, the same question is put to a new selection of leading academics and practitioners. The first eight chapters of the collection present their responses in the form of legal reform proposals, with topics ranging across criminal law, criminal justice and evidence – including corporate liability, consent to bodily harms, prostitution, domestic abuse, economic crimes, defendant anonymity, appeal court structures and the procedures of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Each chapter is followed by a comment from a different author, providing an additional expert view on each proposal. Finally, the last two chapters broaden the debate to discuss criminal law reform in general, from the challenges of decriminalisation to exploring the systemic dynamics of centralisation, austerity and politicisation. The collection highlights and explores the current reform debates that matter most to legal experts, with each chapter making a positive case for change.

The Right To Privacy

The Right To Privacy
Author: Vincent Samar
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-04-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1439903786

Discusses the reasons why and the degree to which privacy should be protected.

AIDS, Drugs, and Society

AIDS, Drugs, and Society
Author: Anna Alexandrova
Publisher: IDEA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780972054188

Annotation "While providing background theory on harm reduction and pragmatic public health approaches to disease prevention, is focused on HIV/AIDS epidemic in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (CEE/NIS). This region now se"

Dimensions of Moral Agency

Dimensions of Moral Agency
Author: David Boersema
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-11-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1443871095

Dimensions of Moral Agency addresses and exemplifies the multi-dimensionality of modern moral philosophy. The book is a collection of papers originally presented at the Northwest Philosophy Conference in October 2013. The papers encompass a wide variety of topics within moral philosophy, including metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics, and broadly fall within the areas of the nature of moral agency and moral agency as it is played out in particular aspects of people’s lived experiences. The papers include assessments of the contributions of historical figures, such as Aristotle, Epictetus, Confucius, Berkeley, and Descartes, as well as analyses of agency as it relates to individual and social moral issues like mental illness, the ethics of debt, prostitution, eco-consumerism, oppression, and species egalitarianism, among others. Also covered are concerns related to the nature of moral reasoning at the individual and social level, the relevance of love and emotion to moral agency, and moral responsibility and efficacy. Interwoven with these topics and issues are concerns related to what sorts of things are, or could be, moral agents and what constitutes a moral good; the possibility of the existence of moral knowledge or moral facts or moral truth; and what constitutes moral motivation and how that is, or is not, related to questions of moral justification.

Living With Contradictions

Living With Contradictions
Author: Alison M Jaggar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1334
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429978774

This book explores some of the moral and public policy issues that divide Western, especially North American, feminists as the twentieth century ends and the twenty-first century begins. It represents an in-house discussion among feminists and their social ethics.

Equality Practice

Equality Practice
Author: William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135313792

William Eskridge, a Yale law professor chronicles the Vermont law which legalised civil unions - distinct from marriage - for same sex couples.