ISBN: | 9780312396176 |
Publisher: | St. Martin's Press |
Published: | 1 September, 1979 |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
- A Few Minutes Past Midnight
- A fatal glass of beer
- Bullet for a star
- Buried Caesars
- Catch a falling clown
- Dancing in the Dark
- Down for the Count
- Down for the count
- He Done Her Wrong
- He Done Her Wrong
- High Midnight
- High midnight
- Mildred Pierced
- Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
- Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
- Never cross a vampire
- Now You See It
- Poor Butterfly
- Smart Moves
- The Devil Met a Lady
- The Howard Hughes Affair
- The Howard Hughes affair
- The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance
- The Melting Clock
- The Melting Clock
- Think Fast, Mr. Peters
- Think fast, Mr. Peters
- To Catch a Spy
- Tomorrow Is Another Day
- Tomorrow is another day
- You Bet Your Life
- You Bet Your Life
The papers in this volume focus on two central issues in the philosophy of law, the relationship between law and morality, and crime and punishment. In the essay that gives the title to this volume, it is argued that, although in many legal systems there are in fact significant connections between law and morality, these connections are not conceptually or logically necessary. They depend on various social practices. Ronald Dworkin's famous attempt to undermine the legal positivist's separation of law from morality is rejected, and it is argued that Dworkin's own positive theory of law may indeed be quite compatible with certain versions of legal positivism. Other essays explore the notion of a wicked legal system, the rule of law, and various perspectives on the nature of law. The essays on crime and punishment discuss the theory and practice of punishment. They extend the work done in the author's earlier book, "Crime, Guilt and Punishment". They reject a purely retributive justification of punishment, in spite of the increasing sophistication in its recent formulations.
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