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Sorell, Tom (2016) The scope of serious crime and preventive justice. Criminal Justice Ethics, 35 (3). pp. 163-182. doi:10.1080/0731129X.2016.1239461 ISSN 0731-129X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2016.1239461
Abstract
I offer an account of serious crime that goes beyond victimizing crimes committed by individuals against other individuals. This approach extends the well-known framework offered by Von Hirsch and Jareborg to include crimes undermining welfare-producing institutions. I then consider how the seriousness of crime justifies preventive measures, including the criminalization of acts preparatory to the commission of serious crime. I shall defend preventive measures, including highly intrusive ones, for the most serious crimes, such as terrorism in the form of mass killing, but I shall take issue with very expansive conceptions of serious crime that include what are intuitively much less serious offences than terrorism or murder. In England and Wales, the Serious Crime Act (2007) lists relevant types of serious crime in its Schedule 1. This and other pieces of serious crime legislation in the UK are discussed critically.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare K Law [Moys] > KF Common Law, British Isles |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Crime -- Great Britain, Preventive law, Sentences (Criminal procedure), Crime prevention -- Great Britain, Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Criminal Justice Ethics | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0731-129X | ||||||
| Official Date: | 20 October 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 35 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 163-182 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/0731129X.2016.1239461 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 September 2016 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 October 2018 | ||||||
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