Offense to Others (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195052152)

The second volume in Joel Feinberg's series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. Feinberg clarifies the concept of an "offended mental state" and further contrasts the concept of offense with harm. He also considers the law of nuisance as a model for statutes creating "morals offenses," showing its inadequacy as a model for understanding "profound offenses," and discusses such issues as obscene words and social policy, pornography and the Constitution, and the differences between minor and profound offenses.

Author: Joel Feinberg
ISBN-10: 0195052153
ISBN-13: 9780195052152
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/07/1988
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.02w x 0.96d