Containing original essays by a distinguished group of jurists from six different European countries, this book confronts the increasing range of legal and philosophical issues arising from the relationship between privacy and the criminal law. The collection is particularly timely in light of the incorporation into English law of the European Convention on Human Rights. It compares legal cultures and underlying assumptions with regard to the private sphere, personal autonomy and the supposed justifications for State interference through criminalization and the implementation of substantive criminal law. The book moves from treatment of general ideas like the relationship between sovereignty, the nation-state and substantive criminal law in the new European context, (with its concomitant aspiration towards the establishment of transnational morality) to more detailed consideration of specific areas of substantive law and procedure, viewed from a range of perspectives. Areas considered include euthanasia, surrogacy, female genital mutilation and sado-masochism.
Author(s): Peter Alldridge, C. H. Brants
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 320
Preliminaries......Page 1
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 13
Table of Cases......Page 15
Table of Legislation......Page 19
INTRODUCTION......Page 27
1 LEGAL MORALISM OR PATERNALISM TOLERANCE OR INDIFFERENCE EGALITARIAN JUSTICE AND THE ETHICS OF EQUAL CONCERN......Page 51
2 PRIVACY AUTONOMY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE RIGHTS PHILOSOPHICAL PRELIMINARIES......Page 75
3 THE PUBLIC THE PRIVATE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PAYMENTS......Page 105
4 SOVEREIGNTY CRIMINAL LAW AND THE NEW EUROPEAN CONTEXT......Page 119
5 THE STATE AND THE NATION’S BEDROOMS THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF SEXUAL AUTONOMY......Page 143
6 HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CRIMINALISATION OF TRADITION THE PRACTICES FORMERLY KNOWN AS FEMALE CIRCUMCISION......Page 165
7 DENYING SHOAH......Page 187
8 CRIMINAL LEGISLATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE HISTORIC ROOTS OF CRIMINAL LAW AND NON INTERVENTION IN THE NETHERLANDS......Page 207
9 CONSENT IN DUTCH CRIMINAL LAW......Page 231
10 DANGEROUSNESS POPULAR KNOWLEDGE AND THE CRIMINAL LAW A CASE STUDY OF THE PAEDOPHILE AS SOCIOCULTURAL PHENOMENON......Page 249
11 THE FIGHT AGAINST SEX WITH CHILDREN......Page 271
Index......Page 293
