The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Volume 1: Harm to Others by Joel Feinberg

The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Volume 1: Harm to Others by Joel Feinberg

This book focuses on the 'harm principle', the common-sense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of criminal legislation, and presents a detailed analysis of the concept and definition of harm, which it applies to a host of practical and theoretical issues.

'Joel Feinberg is a political and social philosopher of major importance.. Virtually everyone who has written about legal and moral responsibility during the past fifteen years owes him a considerable debt.' Harvard Law Review

Joel Feinberg (University of Arizona Professor Emeritus) was widely regarded as one of the country's foremost political and social philosophers. Feinberg published universally on themes like as individual rights, legal theory, death punishment, the treatment of the mentally ill, civil disobedience, and environmental ethics, and was widely praised for both his groundbreaking scholarship and his outstanding teaching abilities. He taught at Brown, Princeton, and Rockefeller universities before joining the University of Arizona faculty. Feinberg received a Fulbright Scholarship to work in Japan in 1987-88 and served as head of the American Philosophical Association's National Board of Officers in the mid-1980s. The Regents Professor Joel Feinberg Dissertation Fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Arizona was established with some of the earnings from Reason and Responsibility.

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ISBN 13	9780195046649
ISBN 10	0195046641
Title	The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Volume 1: Harm to Others
Author	Joel Feinberg
Series	Moral Limits Of The Criminal Law
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1987-08-20
Number of pages	288
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