The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Offense to others

Download or read book The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Offense to others written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N this volume, Feinberg focuses on the meanings of "interest," the relationship between interests and wants, and the distinction between want-regarding and ideal-regarding analyses on interest and hard cases for the applications of the concept of harm. Examples of the "hard cases" are harm to character, vicarious harm, and prenatal and posthumous harm. Feinberg also discusses the relationship between harm and rights, the concept of a victim, and the distinctions of various quantitative dimensions of harm, consent, and offense, including the magnitude, probability, risk, and "importance" of harm.