Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs

A P Simester is Professor of Law and Provost's Chair at the National University of Singapore. Andreas von Hirsch is Honorary Professor at the Law Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, and Emeritus Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge.

• Part I: Criminalisation and Wrongdoing1. The Nature of Criminalisation 2. Wrongfulness and Reasons Part II: Harm3. Crossing the Harm Threshold 4. Remote Harms: the Need for an Extended Harm Principle 5. On the Imputation of Remote Harms Part III: Offence6. Rethinking the Offence Principle 7. The Distinctiveness of the Offence Principle 8. Mediating Principles for Offensive Conduct Part IV: Paternalism9. Reflections on Paternalistic Prohibitions 10. Some Varieties of Indirect Paternalism Part V: Drawing Back from Criminal Law11. Mediating Considerations and Constraints 12. Two-step Criminalisation

...this elegant, closely argued and convincing book is of great value and can be expected to be of lasting influence.