Unlocking Morality from Criminal Law

Journal of Moral Philosophy 14 (3):339-352 (2017)
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This review article critically examines R. A. Duff and Stuart P. Green’s wide-ranging Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law. The book captures well a crucial debate at the heart of its topic: is morality a key for understanding criminal law? I first consider legal moralism arguments answering this question in the affirmative and argue they should be rejected. I next consider alternatives to argue that philosophers of criminal law should look beyond legal moralism for more compelling theories about criminal law.

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Responsibility, citizenship, and criminal law.R. A. Duff - 2011 - In Antony Duff & Stuart P. Green (eds.), Philosophical foundations of criminal law. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 125--148.
Criminal law as public law.Malcolm Thorburn - 2011 - In Antony Duff & Stuart P. Green (eds.), Philosophical foundations of criminal law. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 21--43.
Republicanism and the foundations of criminal law.R. Dagger - 2011 - In Antony Duff & Stuart P. Green (eds.), Philosophical foundations of criminal law. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 44--66.

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