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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826307303321

Titolo

Personal autonomy, the private sphere, and the criminal law : a comparative study / edited by Peter Alldridge and Chrisje Brants

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland, Ore., : Hart Publishing, 2001

ISBN

1-4725-5905-3

1-280-80749-0

9786610807499

1-84731-002-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

340.112

342.4085

Soggetti

Privacy, Right of - Europe

Liberty - Europe

Criminal law - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

INTRODUCTION -- Peter Alldridge and Chrisje Brants -- 1. LEGAL MORALISM OR PATERNALISM? TOLERANCE OR INDIFFERENCE? EGALITARIAN JUSTICE AND THE ETHICS OF EQUAL CONCERN -- Koen Raes -- 2. PRIVACY, AUTONOMY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE RIGHTS:PHILOSOPHICAL PRELIMINARIES -- Paul Roberts -- 3. THE PUBLIC, THE PRIVATE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PAYMENTS -- Peter Alldridge -- 4. SOVEREIGNTY, CRIMINAL LAW AND THE NEW EUROPEAN CONTEXT -- Leonard F. M. Besselink -- 5. THE STATE AND THE NATION'S BEDROOMS: THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF SEXUAL AUTONOMY -- Chrisje Brants -- 6. HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CRIMINALISATION OF TRADITION: THE PRACTICES FORMERLY KNOWN AS "FEMALE CIRCUMCISION" -- Loìˆs Bibbings -- 7. DENYING SHOAH -- Bert Swart -- 8. CRIMINAL LEGISLATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE HISTORIC ROOTS OF CRIMINAL LAW AND NON-INTERVENTION IN THE NETHERLANDS -- C.M. Pelser -- 9. CONSENT IN DUTCH CRIMINAL LAW -- Constantijn Kelk -- 10. DANGEROUSNESS, POPULAR KNOWLEDGE AND THE CRIMINAL LAW: A CASE STUDY OF THE PAEDOPHILE AS



SOCIOCULTURAL PHENOMENON -- Richard Collier -- 11. THE FIGHT AGAINST SEX WITH CHILDREN -- M. Moerings

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains original essays by a distinguished group of jurists from six different European countries confronting the increasing range of legal and philosophical issues arising from the relationship between privacy and the criminal law. The collection is particularly timely in light of the incorporation into English law of the European Convention on Human Rights. It compares legal cultures and underlying assumptions with regard to the private sphere,personal autonomy and the supposed justifications for State interference through criminalization and the implementation of substantive criminal law. The book moves from treatment of general ideas like the relationship between sovereignty, the nation-state and substantive criminal law in the new European context, (with its concomitant aspiration towards the establishment of transnational morality) to more detailed consideration of specific areas of substantive law and procedure, viewed from a range of perspectives. Areas considered include euthanasia, surrogacy, female genital mutilation and sado-masochism