Sex Drugs Death And The Law

Author : David Richards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : 0847675254

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Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law by David Richards Pdf

Among the most commonly argued legal questions are those involving "victimless" crimes--consensual adult sexual relations (including homosexuality and prostitution), the use of drugs, and the right to die. How can they be distinguished from proper crimes, and how can we, as citizens, judge the complex moral and legal issues that such questions entail? David Richards, a teacher of law in the areas of constitutional and criminal law, and a moral and legal philosopher concerned with the investigation of legal concepts, applies an interdisciplinary approach to the question of overcriminalization, he draws on legal and philosophical arguments and links the subject to history, psychology, social science, and literature. To demonstrate how gross and unjust overcriminalization has developed, Professor Richards explores basic assumptions that often underlie the common American sense of proper criminalization.

Author : Lisa Ann Rose
Publisher : Urlink Print & Media, LLC
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1643670913

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SEX, DRUGS, DEATH in BEVERLY HILLS by Lisa Ann Rose Pdf

This book focuses on the life, adventures, tragedies and the plight of one teenager growing up in Beverly Hills during the early 70's drug atmosphere and lifestyle. Book I, is about one teenager's courage and willpower to overcome enormous obstacles in her life, amongst a death sentence from the fledgling Neurological profession in that era. The book also takes a look at the young psychiatric system and it's neophyte facilities; it also explains the archaic use of these facilities available at that time. Life in Beverly Hills during the 60's and 70's could truly be called "surviving "Beverly Hills." Regardless of money or power during the era of freedom, "rock and roll," sex and the "Hippy" mentality still affects generation's to this day. Even saying that you grew up in Beverly Hills still carries a heavy stigma today.

Author : Savannah Skye
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781503566125

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Sex, Drugs, Death in Beverly Hills by Savannah Skye Pdf

This book focuses on the life, adventures, tragedies and the plight of one teenager growing up in Beverly Hills during the early 70’s drug atmosphere and lifestyle. Book I, is about one teenager’s courage and willpower to overcome enormous obstacles in her life, amongst a death sentence from the fledgling Neurological profession in that era. The book also takes a look at the young psychiatric system and it’s neophyte facilities; it also explains the archaic use of these facilities available at that time. Life in Beverly Hills during the 60’s and 70’s could truly be called “surviving “Beverly Hills. Regardless of money or power during the era of freedom, “rock and roll”, sex and the “Hippy” mentality still affects generation’s to this day. Even saying that you grew up in Beverly Hills still carries a heavy stigma today.

Author : John Hittinger
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739104128

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Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace by John Hittinger Pdf

Twentieth-century French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon pioneered new approaches to understanding and defending political democracy in the wake of two world wars. Rather than break from a religious tradition that seemed to struggle against modernity and certain forms of democratic theory and practice, these thinkers instead looked back to the philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to propel Catholic political philosophy forward. The profound influence of Maritain and Simon is manifest in the dramatic achievements of Vatican II and in the work of the scholars of political philosophy who learned from them. John P. Hittinger, one of the finest of these scholars, provides in Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace a comprehensive survey of the Thomists' contributions to contemporary political thought as well as a detailed analysis of their approach to democracy. Hittinger treats criticism of Maritain, including the work of Catholic political writer Aurel Kolnai, and discusses the alternative democratic visions of John Locke and David Richards. His portraits of thinkers who have wrestled with democracy in the Thomist tradition, such as Leo Strauss and John Paul II, are sensitive and engaging. Addressing questions of religion and philosophy broadly understood, the essays collected here offer a searching examination of democratic theory in the modern age.

Author : Nicholas Bamforth
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441188496

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Sexuality, Morals and Justice by Nicholas Bamforth Pdf

Against the background of the law reform debates around sexuality in Britain and America, Bamforth examines what functions it is legitimate for the law to serve and how effective law can be in achieving social goals. He provides a new and cogent argument for protecting lesbian and gay rights through law, but is sceptical about how useful law can be in eradicating discriminatory social practices. This work sheds new light on the equal rights debate and raises issues of central importance to the role of law in society.

Author : Douglas N. Husak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521427274

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Drugs and Rights by Douglas N. Husak Pdf

This book was the first serious work to address the question whether adults have the right to use drugs for recreational purposes.

Author : Carole Pateman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745680330

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The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman Pdf

Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only half the story. The sexual contract which establishes modern patriarchy and the political right of men over women is never mentioned. In a wide-ranging and scholarly discussion, Pateman examines the significance of the political fictions of the original contract and the slave contract. She also offers a sweeping challenge to conventional understandings - of both left and right - of actual contracts in everyday life: the marriage contract, the employment contract, the prostitution contract and the new surrogacy contract. By bringing a feminist perspective to bear on the contradictions and paradoxes surrounding women and contract and the relation between the sexes, she is able to shed new light on the fundamental problems of freedom and subordination. The Sexual Contract will become a classic text in the politics of gender and will be of major interest to students of social and political theory and philosophy, women's studies, sociology and jurisprudence.

Author : Markus Dirk Dubber,Tatjana Hörnle
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks in Law
Page : 1233 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199673599

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The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law by Markus Dirk Dubber,Tatjana Hörnle Pdf

This book deals with various aspects of criminal law, including its relationship to a wide range of disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, and technology. It first considers a range of approaches and methods used in the analysis of criminal law, including economics, feminist studies, critical race theory, criminology, history, and literature. It then traces the origins of modern criminal law to medieval canon law and examines indigenous legal traditions before discussing the collapse of pre-modern criminal justice and the transition to modernity. The book also reviews the general principles of criminal liability; topics covered include constitutional criminal law, actus reus, mens rea, corporate criminal liability, consent, self-defense, necessity, duress, insanity and intoxication, as well as jurisdiction and sentencing. Different types of crimes are analyzed, including public welfare offenses, inchoate crimes, offenses against the person and against sexual autonomy, property offenses, drug offenses, regulatory offenses, and terrorism. Throughout, the book takes a broadly comparative and contextual approach that regards criminal law as a global discipline.

Author : Man Yee Karen Lee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004179264

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Equality, Dignity, and Same-Sex Marriage by Man Yee Karen Lee Pdf

Om udviklingen i homoseksuelles rettigheder på det ægteskabsretlige område i internationalt perspektiv.

Author : Pablo De Greiff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501721212

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Drugs and the Limits of Liberalism by Pablo De Greiff Pdf

Society's drug problem will persist, and debates over how to solve it will continue, getting nowhere, until we define our terms. This book is an effort to do just that—to parse the legal, moral, and philosophical underpinnings for any discussion of drug policy. Does liberal political theory, with its commitment to individual freedom, offer any guidance in the matter of drugs, particularly regarding their legal status? Do the commitments that citizens of liberal democracies make—commitments to ideals such as rationality, equality, justice, and democratic forms of decision-making—have implications for drug policy? These are the questions addressed in this volume, which explores the possibilities and limitations of philosophical reflection on this pressing, practical social issue.The authors, distinguished political and legal philosophers, search out the justification of policies that manage problems of drug consumption and social disintegration, but do so in keeping with the moral and political commitments of a liberal democratic society. Their subjects range from the rationality or irrationality of drug consumption to the scope of liberty; from the proper aims of legislation to the rhetoric of the war on drugs, particularly as deployed by former "Drug Czar" William Bennett.

Author : Neil M. Gorsuch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691140971

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The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia by Neil M. Gorsuch Pdf

After assessing the strengths and weaknesses of arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia, Gorsuch builds a nuanced, novel, and powerful moral and legal argument against legalization, one based on a principle that, surprisingly, has largely been overlooked in the debate; the idea that human life is intrinsically valuable and that intentional killing is always wrong. At the same time, the argument Gorsuch develops leaves wide latitude for individual patient autonomy and the refusal of unwanted medical treatment and life-sustaining care, permitting intervention only in cases where an intention to kill is present.

Author : Robert Leckey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351559171

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Marital Rights by Robert Leckey Pdf

This volume gathers influential and cutting-edge scholarship on the international and domestic rights attaching to married couples and other adult relationships. Addressing examples from the European Court of Human Rights, UK, USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa, it traces contentious debates about the content of marital rights and responsibilities and whether law should reach beyond marriage, and if so how. Twenty-four essays and a substantial introduction highlight the complexity and contradictions as marital law grapples with gender equality, the aftermath of recognizing gay and lesbian rights, abiding economic inequalities, and ?exotic? issues such as forced marriage and polygamy.

Author : Robert P. George
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-08-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191018732

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Making Men Moral by Robert P. George Pdf

Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless immoralities. Against the prevailing liberal view, Robert P. George defends the proposition that `moral laws' can play a legitimate, if subsidiary, role in preserving the `moral ecology' of the cultural environment in which people make the morally significant choices by which they form their characters and influence, for good or ill, the moral lives of others. George shows that a defence of morals legislation is fully compatible with a `pluralistic perfectionist' political theory of civil liberties and public morality.

Author : Craig Paterson
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781599423289

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The Contribution of Natural Law Theory to Moral and Legal Debate Concerning Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia by Craig Paterson Pdf

Author : John Finnis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191021534

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Human Rights and Common Good by John Finnis Pdf

This central volume in the Collected Essays brings together John Finnis's wide-ranging contribution to central issues in political philosophy. The volume begins by examining the general theory of political community and social justice. It includes the powerful and well-known Maccabaean Lecture on Bills of Rights — a searching critique of Ronald Dworkin's moral-political arguments and conclusions, of the European Court of Human Rights' approach to fundamental rights, and of judicial review as a constitutional institution. It is followed by an equally searching analysis of Kant's thought on the intersection of law, right, and ethics. Other papers in the book's opening section include an early assessment of Rawls's A Theory of Justice, a radical re-interpretation of Aquinas on limited government and the significance of the private/public distinction, and a challenging paper on virtue and the constitution. The volume then focuses on central problems in modern political communities, including the achievement of justice in work and distribution; the practice of punishment; war and justice; the public control of euthanasia and abortion; and the nature of marriage and the common good. There are careful and vigorous critiques of Nietzsche on morality, Hart on punishment, Dworkin on the enforcement of morality and on euthanasia, Rawls on justice and law, Thomson on the woman's right to choose, Habermas on abortion, Nussbaum and Koppelman on same-sex relations, and Dummett and Weithman on open borders. The volume's previously unpublished papers include a foundational consideration of labour unions, a fresh statement of a new grounding for the morality of sex, a surprising reading of C.S. Lewis's Abolition of Man on contraception, and an introduction reviewing some of the remarkable changes in private and public morality over the past half-century.