Criminal law exceptionalism as an affirmative ideology, and its expansionist discontents
- Criminal law exceptionalism, or so I suggest, has turned into an ideology in German and Continental criminal law theory. It rests on interrelated claims about the (ideal or real) extraordinary qualities and properties of the criminal law and has led to exceptional doctrines in constitutional criminal law and criminal law theory. It prima facie paradoxically perpetuates and conserves the criminal law, and all too often leads to ideological thoughtlessness, which may blind us to the dark sides of criminal laws in action.
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| Author: | Christoph BurchardGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-640432 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-021-09614-4 |
| ISSN: | 1871-9805 |
| Parent Title (English): | Criminal law and philosophy |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publication: | Dordrecht |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/10/31 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/10/31 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/01/11 |
| Tag: | Criminal law exceptionalism; Dark sides of criminal laws; Ideological thoughtlessness; Ideology |
| Volume: | 2021 |
| Issue: | online version before inclusion in an issue |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| Note: | Early View: Online Version before inclusion in an issue. |
| Note: | Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 491294247 |
| Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
