Making the modern criminal law : criminalization and civil order / Lindsay Farmer.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191801945
- 345.009 23
- K5032
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Offering an historical and conceptual account of criminal law, this volume provides insight into how legal concepts such as responsibility, wrongdoing, intent, and punishment emerged out of debates and sensibilities from the 18th century to the present day, and explores how the state exerts its power and secures civil order through criminal law.
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