Brooks, Thom (2017) 'Unlocking morality from criminal law.', Journal of moral philosophy., 14 (3). pp. 339-352.
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (136Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-01403001 |
| Date accepted: | 21 July 2015 |
| Date deposited: | 29 July 2015 |
| Date of first online publication: | 22 June 2017 |
| Date first made open access: | 22 June 2019 |
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