Author(s): Andrew Von Hirsch, AP Simester
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 293
Half Title Page......Page 2
Half Title verso......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Title verso......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 10
I. WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT OFFENSIVE CONDUCT, WITH WHOM, AND WHAT FOR?......Page 12
II. FACING UP TO THE CHALLENGES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY CONVERSATION......Page 14
III. QUESTIONS FOR PHILOSOPHY......Page 18
V. QUESTIONS FOR JURISPRUDENCE......Page 51
VI. QUESTIONS BEFORE ANSWERS......Page 60
REFERENCES......Page 61
2. How Offensive Can You Get?......Page 68
I. STRUCTURES OF OFFENCE......Page 69
II. RESPONDING TO OFFENCE......Page 75
III. HYBRID RESPONSES: ASBOS, INJUNCTIONS, AND ABCS......Page 90
IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 98
REFERENCES......Page 99
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 102
II. THE METAPHYSICS OF DISGUSTINGNESS......Page 107
III. DISGUST MECHANISMS......Page 115
REFERENCES......Page 122
I. EMERGENCE OF THE ‘OFFENSIVE CONDUCT’ ISSUE......Page 126
II. PREVIOUS ACCOUNTS OF ‘OFFENSIVENESS’......Page 127
III. OFFENCE AS WRONGDOING: DISRESPECTFUL OR INCONSIDERATE TREATMENT OF OTHERS......Page 130
IV. MEDIATING PRINCIPLES REGARDING CRIMINALISATION OF OFFENSIVE CONDUCT......Page 135
V. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS......Page 141
REFERENCES......Page 142
I. DIFFERENT WAYS TO THINK ABOUT CRIMINALISATION......Page 144
II. INCONSIDERATE BEHAVIOUR OR BEHAVIOUR VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS?......Page 148
III. CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 157
REFERENCES......Page 158
I......Page 160
II......Page 168
III......Page 175
REFERENCES......Page 182
I. CONSTRAINING THE CRIMINAL LAW......Page 184
II. THE NATURE OF TSPS......Page 185
III. BYPASSING CONSTRAINTS, AND THE POTENTIAL FOR MISUSE......Page 189
IV. USING TSPS IN SPECIALIST CONTEXTS: THE ACP......Page 200
V. ASSESSING THE ENGLISH ASBO LEGISLATION......Page 201
VI. CONCLUSION......Page 203
REFERENCES......Page 204
8. 'No Spitting': Regulations of Offensive Behaviour in England and Wales......Page 206
I. HISTORICAL REVIEW......Page 207
II. OFFENCE REGULATION, 1986 TO 1997......Page 210
III. NEW LABOUR AND MODERN OFFENCE REGULATION......Page 215
IV. COMMENTARY......Page 224
REFERENCES......Page 228
I. SOCIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS......Page 230
II. SOCIAL CAPITAL, CIVIC PARTICIPATION, AND HEALTH......Page 233
III. SOCIAL PATHOLOGY: HEALTH AND CRIME......Page 234
IV. SOCIAL CAPITAL AND TRUST......Page 237
V. TRUST AND OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR......Page 241
REFERENCES......Page 246
10. Incivilities, Offence, and Social Order in Residential Communities......Page 250
I. INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION: ‘NEIGHBOURS FROM HELL’......Page 251
II. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE I: THE BRITISH CRIME SURVEY......Page 254
III. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE II: A LOCAL SURVEY......Page 260
IV. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE III: ‘SIGNAL CRIMES’ THEORISATION AND EVIDENCE......Page 267
V. EXPLAINING REACTIONS TO NEIGHBOURHOOD INCIVILITIES......Page 270
VI. THREE THEORETICAL FORMULATIONS......Page 275
VII. PRINCIPLES FOR POLICY......Page 284
REFERENCES......Page 290
Index......Page 292
