Personal Autonomy, the Private Sphere and Criminal Law

Peter Alldridge is a Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. Chrisje Brants is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Utrecht,the Netherlands.

• Introduction, Peter Alldridge and Chrisje Brants; legal moralism or paternalism? tolerance or indifference? egalitarian justice and the ethics of equal concern, Koen Raes; privacy, autonomy and criminal justice rights - philosophical preliminaries, Paul Roberts; the public, the private and the significance of payments, Peter Alldridge; sovereignty, criminal law and the new European context, Leonard F.M. Besselink; the state and the nation's bedrooms - the fundamental right of sexual autonomy, Chrisje Brants; human rights and the criminalisation of tradition - the practices formerly known as "female circumcision", Lois Bibbings; denying Shoah, Bert Swart; criminal legislation in the nineteenth century - the historic roots of criminal law and non-intervention in the Netherlands, C.M. Pelser; consent in Dutch criminal law, Constantijn Kelk; dangerousness, popular knowledge and the criminal law - a case study of the paedophile as sociocultural phenomenon, Richard Collier; the right against sex with children, M. Moerings.