Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law

by Douglas Husak

Book Overview

The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment. Husak describes the phenomena in some detail and explores their relation, and why these trends produce massive injustice. His primary goal is to defend a set of constraints that limit the authority of states to enact and enforce penal offenses. The book urges the weight and relevance of this topic in the real world, and notes that most Anglo-American legal philosophers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019532871X
• ISBN13: 9780195328714
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"