Oxford University Press Wrongs and Crimes (Criminalization)

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization, the series tackles the key questions at the heart of the issue: what principles and goals should guide legislators in deciding what to criminalize? How should criminal wrongs be classified and differentiated? How should law enforcement officials apply the law's specifications of offences? The sixth volume in the series offers a philosophical investigation of the relationship between moral wrongdoing and criminalization. Considering they justification of punishment, the nature of harm, the importance of autonomy, inchoate wrongdoing, the role of consent, and the role of the state, the book provides an account of the nature of moral wrong doing, the sources of wrong doing, why wrong doing is the central target of the criminal law, and the ways in which criminalization of non-wrongful conduct might be permissible. Review ...the book worth reading. ― Arudra Burra, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi,Wrongs and Crimes is something rare in moral philosophy and rarer still in the moral philosophy of punishment: a book whose good sense keeps pace with its seemingly limitless cleverness. Threaded through the intricate embroidery of cases are simple, powerful, and humane ideas. ― Niko Kolodny, Professor of Philosophy, UC BerkeleyPhilosophical research on foundational issues concerning interpersonal consent is in fairly early days, and Tadros has elevated it to new levels of rigour. ― Tom Dougherty, Criminal Law and PhilosophyWrongs and Crimes is up to the extraordinarily high philosophical standards that Victor Tadros has set throughout his career. ... Engaging with Tadros's work has been an unbelievably effective means to sharpen, refine, and improve my own thought. I am confident it will prove equally beneficial for any philosopher of criminal law. ― Douglas Husak, Criminal Law and PhilosophyProfessor Tadros succeeds admirably with his mission to consider the nature and sources of wrongdoing which every law student must begin with both with "personal and interpersonal responses" which arise... It is a great tribute to the author that he has been able to sift through the vast literature this subject generates to give us, as the readers a coherent seventeen chapters in such a lucid way thus making the book both "readable" and "lovable"...to us, in any event, and no doubt to a new generation of applied criminologists, and possibly budding jurisprudents. ― Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers About the Author Victor Tadros is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick. He works in the philosophy of criminal law, just war theory, and on a range of issues in moral, legal and political philosophy. He is the author of Criminal Responsibility (OUP, 2005) and, with Antony Duff, Lindsay Farmer and Sandra Marshall, The Trial on Trial vol.3: Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial (Hart, 2007). His most recent book is The Ends of Harm: The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law (OUP, 2011). He has edited seven books, including four in the Criminalization series. He currently holds a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on the ethics of armed conflict and is a Fellow of the British Academy.