Harmless WrongdoingThe final volume of Feinberg's four-volume work, The Moral Limits of Criminal Law examines the philosophical basis for the criminalization of so-called "victimless crimes" such as ticket scalping, blackmail, consented-to exploitation of others, commercial fortune telling, and consensual sexual relations. |
Contents
Legal Moralism and Nongrievance Evils | 3 |
Pure and impure legal moralism | 8 |
Moralism and harm to others | 10 |
Moralism and offense to others | 15 |
Moralism and harm to self | 16 |
A taxonomy of evils | 17 |
Candidates for freefloating evils | 20 |
Welfareconnected nongrievance evils | 25 |
Retribution for wrongs without victims | 159 |
Consent as a defense in criminal law | 165 |
Summary | 173 |
Exploitation With and Without Harm | 176 |
ways of using the other person | 179 |
exploitable traits and circumstances | 181 |
redistribution of gains and losses | 192 |
Fairness and unfairness | 199 |
A note on public and collective harms | 33 |
Summary and transition | 37 |
Preserving a Way of Life | 39 |
The conservative thesis | 43 |
arguments for the conservative thesis based on fairness | 50 |
on harm to interests | 55 |
arguments for the conservative thesis based on the need to prevent freefloating socialchange evils | 64 |
Some secondthought conservative grievances | 68 |
some misleading models | 71 |
The concept of a way of life | 76 |
grievance and nongrievance morality | 79 |
29A Autonomy and Community | 81 |
The social nature of man | 83 |
Tradition | 90 |
Alienation | 98 |
What communities are | 101 |
Overlapping memberships | 105 |
The idea of a liberal community | 108 |
Remaining tensions between community and autonomy | 113 |
Summary | 120 |
Enforcing True Morality | 124 |
Pure moralism in the strict sense | 126 |
Devlins social disintegration thesis | 133 |
What are we to mean by morality? | 140 |
the argument from the moral gradation of punishments | 144 |
Stephens original argument | 155 |
the main categories of exploitation | 204 |
Preventing Wrongful Gain | 211 |
insider trading and nextofkin organ sales | 220 |
Commercial fortunetelling | 224 |
Ticket scalping | 231 |
The paradox of blackmail | 238 |
a paradox lost | 240 |
justified blackmail | 258 |
Summary | 274 |
Legal Perfectionism and the Benefit Principles | 277 |
Coercion to virtue | 281 |
Skinner versus Mill | 287 |
The educative function of law | 294 |
A note on the moral education theory of punishment | 300 |
ethical relativism | 305 |
Harm and nonbenefit again | 311 |
a brief note on collective goods | 316 |
Conclusion | 318 |
Belated redefinitions | 320 |
Parfits misconceived baby | 325 |
Kristols gladiatorial contest | 328 |
Confusions about what is to count as a counterexample | 331 |
Liberalism and dogmatism | 333 |
Notes | 339 |
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Common terms and phrases
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