...Alessandro Corda It is often maintained that the criminal law is supposed to intervene only when a certain social norm has become so significant within a given society to justify its protection by means of penal sanctions. The criminal law is thus thought to mirror a hierarchy of values it neither...

...Javier Wilenmann Contemporary legal scholarship on criminalization focuses on evaluating the legitimacy of legislative decisions according to abstract standards of justice. In recent years, socio-legally oriented scholarship has attempted to do away with this focus by linking the theory...

...Amy Swiffen; Martin French This paper examines the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada as a public health legal response. The analysis begins outside the public health framework to relate the criminalization of HIV to broader shifts in the relationship between life and law...

... (identifying) criminals, and correcting them. The following paper examines specifically how Patrick Colquhoun approached such regulation by emphasizing “immoral habits” as a cause of crime that could be regulated, in concert, by civil society and criminal law. He called for the development of effective...

...Hamed Tofangsaz This article analyzes the criminalization provisions of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, the backbone of the legal regime for the prevention of terrorist financing. It makes a detailed examination of the background of the Convention...

...). This increased level of punitiveness is pursued by countless legislative amendments to criminalize a new suite of terrorist offenses, the expansion of police powers to investigate terrorism and the intensification of punishment and sentencing on terrorist offenders. China terrorism criminalization...

...Ariel L. Bendor; Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg May criminalization constitute a violation of a constitutional right? This question has rarely been discussed directly in the legal literature. This Article offers a novel and fully developed normative framework for courts to review the constitutionality...

...Andrew Cornford The criminal laws of many states make increasing use of preventive offenses—offenses that aim to prevent a given type of harm by targeting conduct prior to the causation of that harm. Academic commentators have largely been skeptical about such offenses. Their most potent criticism...

...Dennis J. Baker In this article, it is argued that an application of the harm principle to many forms of nontherapeutic cosmetic surgery shows that these procedures are a form of physical harm, not a form of medicine, and therefore ought to be criminalized. Not only does the harm principle support...

...Sharon Cowan Given the current criminalization trend, the motivating question of this article is whether or not sexual transmission of HIV, without specific consent to the risk of such transmission, should be categorized as an assault or a sexual assault, and what difference that (re)categorization...

...Jack Anderson This article critically assesses the criminal law on consensual harm through an examination of the legality of fighting sports. The article begins by considering fighting sports such as bare-fisted prize fighting (dominant in the nineteenth century). It then, in historical chronology...

... speech, criminalization, harm, wrong *School of Law, King s College London. **SEAS, University of Sheffield. | 621 New Criminal Law Review, Vol. 16, Number 4, pps 621 656. ISSN 1933-4192, electronic ISSN 1933-4206. © 2013 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct...