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Who Controls Criminal Law? Racial Threat and the Adoption of State Sentencing Law, 1975 to 2012

, 2020
Threat theory argues that states toughen criminal laws to repress the competitive power of large minority groups. Yet, research on threat suffers from a poor understanding of why minority group size contributes to social control and a lack of evidence on
Scott W. Duxbury
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Criminal law as public ordering

University of Toronto Law Journal, 2020
:Though ‘law and order’ is a familiar phrase, the precise meaning of order and its relation to law are issues that criminal law theorists have only recently begun to study closely. This article contributes to that growing literature by exploring order as
Alice Ristroph
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Religious conservatism, Islamic criminal law and the judiciary in Indonesia: a tale of three courts

Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2018
This article discusses three Indonesian court cases decided in 2017 in which the interests of conservative Muslims were supported. In the first, the Constitutional Court was asked to expand the definition of various moral offences in the Criminal Code in
S. Butt
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Criminal Law and Scope of Criminal Law

International Journal of Law and Society
Unitary state The Republic of Indonesia is a country with foundations on law ( Rechts Staat ). In space its scope there is a number of one of the principles that is principle legality . Scope​ law criminal interests oriented​ general .
Yolla Veronica Sembiring, Yasmirah Mandasari Saragih, S. Sumarno, Juita Novalia, Br. Barus, Welli Nirpa Pasaribu   +5 more
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The Realm of Criminal Law

, 2018
We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered ...
R. Duff
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Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State

, 2018
What is the criminal law for? At its most elemental, criminal law secures the possibility of a shared life under stable and just public institutions.

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Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law

, 2016
Principles of Criminal Law takes a distinctly different approach to the study of criminal law, whilst still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses.
Jeremy Horder
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The origins of criminal law

Nature Human Behaviour, 2020
Daniel Sznycer, C. Patrick
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Genocide in International Law

The 1948 Genocide Convention is a vital legal tool in the international campaign against impunity. Its provisions, including its enigmatic definition of the crime and its pledge both to punish and to prevent the 'crime of crimes', have now been ...
W. Schabas
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