Public wrongs and the criminal law

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Lee, Ambrose Y. K. 2013. Public wrongs and the criminal law. Criminal Law and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-013-9231-z

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Authors	Lee, Ambrose Y. K.
Abstract	This paper is about how best to understand the notion of ‘public wrongs’ in the longstanding idea that crimes are public wrongs. By contrasting criminal law with the civil laws of torts and contracts, it argues that ‘public wrongs’ should not be understood merely as wrongs that properly concern the public, but more specifically as those which the state, as the public, ought to punish. It then briefly considers the implications that this has on criminalization.
Keywords	Public wrongs; Private wrongs; Legal processes; Punishment; Compensation; Criminalization
Year	2013
Journal	Criminal Law and Philosophy
Publisher	Springer
ISSN	1871-9791
	1871-9805
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-013-9231-z
Web address (URL)	http://hdl.handle.net/10545/611803
	hdl:10545/611803
Publication dates	05 Mar 2013
Deposited	06 Jun 2016, 13:22
Rights	Archived with thanks to Criminal Law and Philosophy
Contributors	University of Oxford, Centre for Criminology
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