Public Wrongs and the Criminal Law
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Lee, Yuk Kong (2013) Public Wrongs and the Criminal Law Criminal Law and Philosophy, 9 (1). pp. 155-170.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-013-9231-z
Abstract
This paper is about how best to understand the notion of ‘public wrongs’ in the longstanding idea that crimes are public wrongs. By contrasting criminal law with the civil laws of torts and contracts, it argues that ‘public wrongs’ should not be understood merely as wrongs that properly concern the public, but more specifically as those which the state, as the public, ought to punish. It then briefly considers the implications that this has on criminalization.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Divisions : | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
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| Date : | 3 May 2013 | ||||||
| Identification Number : | 10.1007/s11572-013-9231-z | ||||||
| Copyright Disclaimer : | © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 | ||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords : | Public wrongs; Private wrongs; Legal processes; Punishment; Compensation; Criminalization | ||||||
| Depositing User : | Clive Harris | ||||||
| Date Deposited : | 16 Aug 2017 15:14 | ||||||
| Last Modified : | 15 Mar 2018 09:23 | ||||||
| URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/841946 |
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