Aktivitet: Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag › Konferenceoplæg
Beskrivelse
Normative theories of criminalization, such as the harm principle or legal moralism, are often defended independently of any particular normative theory of the state. In this presentation I shall argue that the plausibility of any given normative theory of criminalization depends upon the plausibility of a corresponding normative theory of the state. This is so because a fact about some conduct pro tanto justifies criminalizing that conduct only if that fact makes the criminalization of that conduct serve an aim, which the existence of a coercive state is pro tanto justified by serving.