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Duff on Criminal Law Theory

By Lawrence Solum

R. A. Duff (University of Stirling, Philosophy) has posted Towards a Theory of Criminal Law? on Wiley InterScience (subscription required). Here is the abstract:

After an initial discussion (§i) of what a theory of criminal law might amount to, I sketch (§ii) the proper aims of a liberal, republican criminal law, and discuss (§§iii?iv) two central features of such a criminal law: that it deals with public wrongs, and provides for those who perpetrate such wrongs to be called to public account. §v explains why a liberal republic should maintain such a system of criminal law, and §vi tackles the issue of criminalization?of how we should determine the proper scope of the criminal law.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).