Professor Thom Brooks thom.brooks@durham.ac.uk
Professor
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.
Brooks, T. (2017). Unlocking Morality from Criminal Law. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 14(3), 339-352. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-01403001
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 21, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 22, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jun 22, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jul 22, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 22, 2019 |
Journal | Journal of Moral Philosophy |
Print ISSN | 1740-4681 |
Electronic ISSN | 1745-5243 |
Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 339-352 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-01403001 |
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