This chapter reviews the most essential functions of law, including criminal law, within a contemporary constitutional state. It suggests that the most basic demand citizens ought to make of criminal law is that it contributes to securing the conditions of civility and social peace, thus sustaining civil society.
The Limits of Law
The Limits of Law. First published Sat Jan 29, 2022. A central—perhaps the central—question of the philosophy of law concerns the relationship between law and morality. The concern breaks down into many issues, both conceptual and evaluative. Among the evaluative issues is the question of obedience to law: does the fact that some norm is a ...
Morality and the Criminal Law
Since the criminal law is concerned only with acts, it is to be observed that a person's moral status, if it may be so termed, is not the object of criminal sanctions. It is no offence to be a dope addict, a prostitute, a liar, a sadist, or a prodigal, or to belong to any other allegedly morally reprehen- sible group.
Criminal Culpability and Moral Luck
Extract Andrew Simester's Fundamentals of Criminal Law, 1 displays his customary mix of deep knowledge, insight, and creativity in exploring the central doctrines of criminal liability. His account of those doctrines is complex, bringing considerations of moral philosophy, the rule of law, the proper basis for criminalization, and the practicalities of the criminal justice system to bear on ...
Does Law Exist to Provide Moral Order?
Morality can, he argued, influence the law, but it is not synonymous with the law. On the other hand, laws against dangerous driving (or, say, murder), for example, are no doubt influenced by morality, but they are also part of social-bureaucratic order. And well-ordered states are not necessarily moral states.
1 Relationships Between Law and Morality
A frequent area of interest to those who theorize about law concerns the various relationships between law and morality. To understand these relationships, it is helpful to distinguish three kinds of inquiry concerning morality and law. The first is empirical in the sense that it is concerned with identifying certain contingent relationships in ...
Criminal Law and Morality Revisited: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Abstract. The relationship between morality and criminal law must constantly evolve to meet the needs of changing times and circumstances. Social changes and new situations require new answers. This chapter will take the famous 'Wolfenden Report' (1957) as a starting point for reviewing the interaction of criminal law and morality, in the ...
Concept of crime and morality under criminal law
This article deals with the concept of crime and the connection between morality and criminal law.
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Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School It is evident that both law and morality serve to channel our behavior. Law accom- plishes this primarily through the threat of sanctions if we disobey legal rules. Moral- ity too involves incentives: bad acts may result in guilt and disapprobation, and good acts may result in virtuous feelings and praise.
Relationship Between Criminal Law and Morality
The social relationship offered by both law and morality creates a connection sense between these two concepts. For example, this connection can be formed on the general adherence to intellectual or ideological commitments, positive moral and spiritual sharing, and beliefs. [46]
Criminal Law and Morality in the Age of Consent
If such relations are not clearly understood, as is the case today, the relation between morality and law cannot be properly comprehended either. The relationship between morality and criminal law must constantly evolve to meet the needs of changing times and circumstances. Social changes and new situations require new answers.
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The introduction to this essay starts with clear definitions of the key terms 'morality/morals' and 'law'. The use of theorists in this paragraph makes the definitions more detailed and developed.
Law and morality
Law governs conduct within our society. Morality influences personal decisions relating to individual conduct. The conceptual differentiation of law and morals is thus, at fundamental level, difficult to identify with precision. It is true to conclude that law can be divided into two components. Law consists of a body of basic concepts (its ...
Moral Judgment, Crime Seriousness, and the Relations Between Them
The present study analyzes the relationship between moral judgment and perceptions of crime seriousness. This analysis is done with special attention to Kohlberg's theory of moral development. Main research findings: Significant correlations exist between perceived seriousness of offenses and consideration of such conducts as immoral, and between the levels of the perceived seriousness of ...
Moral Foundations of Cesare Beccaria's Doctrine on ...
The paper is devoted to the moral aspect of the criminal law doctrine created by the outstanding Italian thinker, publicist, jurist and public figure Cesare Beccaria.
(PDF) Moral-psychological and Legal Aspects of the Evaluation of
The impact of moral, psychological and legal aspects of the evaluation of evidence by the officials conducting the criminal proceedings on the attitude of society to its results is considered in ...
Correlation of Normative and Moral Categories in the Principles of
Abstract In the article, the author examines the normative and moral categories in the context of criminal procedural law in relation to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan, as a result of which he comes to the appropriate conclusions.
Conflict, Corroding Social Norms, and the Kardashians: Why We ...
Reevaluating how we define and publicly articulate criminal culpability holds the promise of positive real-world impacts. By more effectively communicating the full extent of an offender's injury to a victim and society, we materially enhance criminal punishment's crucial expressive, evaluative, descriptive, and conduct-directing objectives.
The Internal Morality of Criminal Law
Criminal law conforms to the instrumental principle when the existence of its norms helps to prevent or ameliorate moral wrongdoing. Our argument is that the instrumental principle forms part of the internal morality of criminal law, and supplies a justification for criminal laws that depart from the mirror principle.
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"They pretended that the constitution of the U.S.S.R.," he writes, "was the law of the land." Police interrogators tied themselves in knots trying to pin an actual crime on their suspects.
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The authority of law: Essays on law and morality
Abstract This revised edition of one of the classic works of modern legal philosophy, first published in 1979, represents the author's contribution which has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality. The new edition includes two previously uncollected essays and a new introduction from the author. Keywords: legal philosophy ...
8 Law and Morality: Essays in Applied Ethics
Abstract The essay included here discusses the social, historical, and theoretical foundations of law and morality in the context of applied ethics. It offers an argument that reconciles the demands of morality and law alike and talks about common authority and justice, law and its relationship with the concept of utility, the principle of organic development as the exclusive source of law ...
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Law and morality
Abstract. Moral questions inexorably arise in almost any legal system, and confronting them is one of the fundamental characteristics of a free society. 'Law and morality' examines the relationship between the law and the moral practices adopted by society. In some cases, there is conflict between the law and the moral code of certain ...
Ukraine's Incursion Into Russia Flips the Script on Putin
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This chapter reviews the most essential functions of law, including criminal law, within a contemporary constitutional state. It suggests that the most basic demand citizens ought to make of criminal law is that it contributes to securing the conditions of civility and social peace, thus sustaining civil society.
The Limits of Law. First published Sat Jan 29, 2022. A central—perhaps the central—question of the philosophy of law concerns the relationship between law and morality. The concern breaks down into many issues, both conceptual and evaluative. Among the evaluative issues is the question of obedience to law: does the fact that some norm is a ...
Since the criminal law is concerned only with acts, it is to be observed that a person's moral status, if it may be so termed, is not the object of criminal sanctions. It is no offence to be a dope addict, a prostitute, a liar, a sadist, or a prodigal, or to belong to any other allegedly morally reprehen- sible group.
Extract Andrew Simester's Fundamentals of Criminal Law, 1 displays his customary mix of deep knowledge, insight, and creativity in exploring the central doctrines of criminal liability. His account of those doctrines is complex, bringing considerations of moral philosophy, the rule of law, the proper basis for criminalization, and the practicalities of the criminal justice system to bear on ...
Morality can, he argued, influence the law, but it is not synonymous with the law. On the other hand, laws against dangerous driving (or, say, murder), for example, are no doubt influenced by morality, but they are also part of social-bureaucratic order. And well-ordered states are not necessarily moral states.
A frequent area of interest to those who theorize about law concerns the various relationships between law and morality. To understand these relationships, it is helpful to distinguish three kinds of inquiry concerning morality and law. The first is empirical in the sense that it is concerned with identifying certain contingent relationships in ...
Abstract. The relationship between morality and criminal law must constantly evolve to meet the needs of changing times and circumstances. Social changes and new situations require new answers. This chapter will take the famous 'Wolfenden Report' (1957) as a starting point for reviewing the interaction of criminal law and morality, in the ...
This article deals with the concept of crime and the connection between morality and criminal law.
Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School It is evident that both law and morality serve to channel our behavior. Law accom- plishes this primarily through the threat of sanctions if we disobey legal rules. Moral- ity too involves incentives: bad acts may result in guilt and disapprobation, and good acts may result in virtuous feelings and praise.
The social relationship offered by both law and morality creates a connection sense between these two concepts. For example, this connection can be formed on the general adherence to intellectual or ideological commitments, positive moral and spiritual sharing, and beliefs. [46]
If such relations are not clearly understood, as is the case today, the relation between morality and law cannot be properly comprehended either. The relationship between morality and criminal law must constantly evolve to meet the needs of changing times and circumstances. Social changes and new situations require new answers.
The introduction to this essay starts with clear definitions of the key terms 'morality/morals' and 'law'. The use of theorists in this paragraph makes the definitions more detailed and developed.
Law governs conduct within our society. Morality influences personal decisions relating to individual conduct. The conceptual differentiation of law and morals is thus, at fundamental level, difficult to identify with precision. It is true to conclude that law can be divided into two components. Law consists of a body of basic concepts (its ...
The present study analyzes the relationship between moral judgment and perceptions of crime seriousness. This analysis is done with special attention to Kohlberg's theory of moral development. Main research findings: Significant correlations exist between perceived seriousness of offenses and consideration of such conducts as immoral, and between the levels of the perceived seriousness of ...
The paper is devoted to the moral aspect of the criminal law doctrine created by the outstanding Italian thinker, publicist, jurist and public figure Cesare Beccaria.
The impact of moral, psychological and legal aspects of the evaluation of evidence by the officials conducting the criminal proceedings on the attitude of society to its results is considered in ...
Abstract In the article, the author examines the normative and moral categories in the context of criminal procedural law in relation to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan, as a result of which he comes to the appropriate conclusions.
Reevaluating how we define and publicly articulate criminal culpability holds the promise of positive real-world impacts. By more effectively communicating the full extent of an offender's injury to a victim and society, we materially enhance criminal punishment's crucial expressive, evaluative, descriptive, and conduct-directing objectives.
Criminal law conforms to the instrumental principle when the existence of its norms helps to prevent or ameliorate moral wrongdoing. Our argument is that the instrumental principle forms part of the internal morality of criminal law, and supplies a justification for criminal laws that depart from the mirror principle.
President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree allowing foreign citizens and stateless individuals to apply for temporary residency in the country if they share "traditional Russian ...
"They pretended that the constitution of the U.S.S.R.," he writes, "was the law of the land." Police interrogators tied themselves in knots trying to pin an actual crime on their suspects.
The Department of Justice has begun a broad criminal investigation into Americans who have worked with Russia's state television networks, signaling an aggressive effort to combat the Kremlin ...
Abstract This revised edition of one of the classic works of modern legal philosophy, first published in 1979, represents the author's contribution which has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality. The new edition includes two previously uncollected essays and a new introduction from the author. Keywords: legal philosophy ...
Abstract The essay included here discusses the social, historical, and theoretical foundations of law and morality in the context of applied ethics. It offers an argument that reconciles the demands of morality and law alike and talks about common authority and justice, law and its relationship with the concept of utility, the principle of organic development as the exclusive source of law ...
Under Russian law, the maximum penalty for illegally crossing the border is four years in prison and a fine of several thousand dollars, according to the F.S.B. statement, which was quoted by the ...
Abstract. Moral questions inexorably arise in almost any legal system, and confronting them is one of the fundamental characteristics of a free society. 'Law and morality' examines the relationship between the law and the moral practices adopted by society. In some cases, there is conflict between the law and the moral code of certain ...
New Cases Against Journalists: Moscow said that it had opened a criminal case against a CNN correspondent and two Ukrainian reporters on charges of entering Russia illegally while reporting on ...