The Legal Enforcement of Morality
Author | : Thomas C. Grey |
Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas C. Grey |
Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick Devlin |
Publisher | : Amagi Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780865978058 |
Are morals always relative? Are private actions--among consenting adults-- always beyond the law? Or are there some behaviors which so weaken a society that common beliefs about right and wrong must be enforced to protect the common good? In opposing the decriminalization of private acts of homosexuality in Britain, Patrick Devlin maintained that not only is it reasonable to allow popular morality to influence lawmaking, it is imperative: " . . . For a society is not something that is kept together physically; it is held by the invisible bonds of common thought." Today, as divisive issues such as same-sex marriage and "don't ask, don't tell" confront our legislative, judicial, and executive branches, the views expressed by Devlin in The Enforcement of Morals resonate and reverberate anew. Patrick Devlin (1905-1992) studied history and law at Cambridge University and became a successful lawyer.
Author | : H. L. A. Hart |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780804701549 |
This incisive book deals with the use of the criminal law to enforce morality, in particular sexual morality, a subject of particular interest and importance since the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957. Professor Hart first considers John Stuart Mill's famous declaration: "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community is to prevent harm to others." During the last hundred years this doctrine has twice been sharply challenged by two great lawyers: Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, the great Victorian judge and historian of the common law, and Lord Devlin, who both argue that the use of the criminal law to enforce morality is justified. The author examines their arguments in some detail, and sets out to demonstrate that they fail to recognize distinction of vital importance for legal and political theory, and that they espouse a conception of the function of legal punishment that few would now share.
Author | : Lon Luvois Fuller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Law and ethics |
ISBN | : 9788175341630 |
Author | : Patrick Baron Devlin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kent Greenawalt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0195058240 |
Powerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons. This study is a comprehensive philosophical and legal analysis of the gray area in which the foundations of law and morality clash. In examining the extent of the obligations owed by citizens to their government, Greenawalt concentrates on the possible existence of a single source of obligation that reaches all citizens and all laws.
Author | : Yuval Feldman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2018-06-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107137101 |
This book argues that overcoming people's inability to recognize their own wrongdoing is the most important but regrettably neglected area of the behavioral approach to law.
Author | : Don Welch |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eyal Zamir |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 841 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199945470 |
'The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Law' brings together leading scholars of law, psychology, and economics to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of this field of research, including its strengths and limitations as well as a forecast of its future development. Its twenty-nine chapters are organized into four parts.