THE LIMITS OF CRIMINAL LAW A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF APPROACHES TO LEGAL THEORIZINGPDF电子书下载
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- 出版年份:2010
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1 Law, Limits and Legitimacy - Germany and Australia 1
2 The German Rechtsgutstheorie 5
The Function of Criminal Law 5
The Concept Developed by Claus Roxin 8
Consequences of the Concept 10
The Expansion of the Criminal Law’s Scope Beyond the Protection of Rechtsguter 17
Criminal Versus Administrative Offences 18
The Mutability of the Rechtsgut concept 19
Rechtsgut, Offences of Abstract Endangerment and Collective Rechtsguter 19
The Protection of Rechtsguter and the Constitution 21
An Obligation to Criminalize? 22
The Subsidiarity of the Criminal Law 24
Dissenting Opinions in the Literature 24
Jescheck/Weigend, Zipf 24
Welzel 24
Lenckner 25
Jakobs 25
Amelung 25
Stratenwerth 26
The Violation of a Subjective Right or an Interest 26
Help from the English-speaking Debate? 29
Excursus: Additional Functions of the Rechtsgut Concept 30
Statutory Interpretation 30
Consent 31
Necessary Defence 34
Necessity 35
Attribution 36
Methodological Interdependence 37
A Dogmatic Tool for Critique 38
3 The Approach to the Problem - A Problem Itself 41
The Original Plan and its Alteration 41
An Analysis Using Contextual and Comparative Elements 43
The Lack of Literature: Time for a Talk 45
The Questions 46
The Interviewees 46
The Interviews 47
The Results 48
The Problems Arising From Two Different Types of Data 48
4 The Discussion in Australia 51
Several (Limiting) Principles 52
The Harm Principle 57
The Offence Principle 63
Morality 65
The Welfare Principle 67
The Public Interest 69
Paternalism 70
Republican Theories of Criminal Justice 71
A Principle for Every Case 72
A Change Towards Theory 73
The Classic Understanding: Application of the Law as it Stands 74
An English Tradition 75
The New Approach - Theory Overload? 80
Criminology versus Jurisprudence - Criminalization versus Limits of Criminal Law 81
More Descriptive than Critical = More Pragmatic than Dogmatic = More Political than Legal 87
Jurisprudential Benefits: Legal Argumentation 88
5 Incest, Bestiality and Drugs - Legitimately Criminalized? 93
Incest 94
Bestiality 104
Possession of Illicit Drugs 109
Opinions Without Conceptual Theory 115
6 Conclusions 117
Summary - The Lack of a Normative Concept 117
Outlook -A Unique Opportunity 118
Bibliography 123
Appendix A 137
Appendix B 139
Index 141