The Principle of Proportionality

• Main Author: hulsroj, peter. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Law, 7
• Subjects: Law.; Philosophy of law.; Philosophy.; Criminal Law.; Criminology.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Philosophy of Law.; European Law.; Philosophy of Man.; Public International Law.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5775-2

The book applies the principle of proportionality to a number of conventional wisdoms in the social sciences, such as in dubio pro reo and the assumption that a crime is always a crime; that you must go to war if instructed to do so.�Individuals and states are not obliged to come to the aid of stric...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Preface
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Book I, In Dubio Pro Reo
• 4. Book II, When a Crime is not a Crime
• 5. Book III, Love and Proportionality
• 6. Book IV, The End Justifying the Means
• 7. Book V, True Globalisation
• 8. Book VI, Large and Small Crimes
• 9. Book VII, A Farewell to Evolution.