In the US, one out of every 138 residents is incarcerated. The size of the prison population has quadrupled since 1980. Approximately 2.4% of Americans are either on probation and parole. The US has the highest rate of criminal punishment in the Western world. The problem with American criminal law, as the philosopher of law Douglas Husak and many others see it, is that there i...(展开全部)

赫伯特·L.帕克 Herbert L.Packer（1925-1972），美国现代著名刑事法学家、斯坦福大学法学院教授，刑事诉论犯罪控制模式与正当程序模式理论的创立者。 梁根林，北京大学法学院教授、博士生导师，中国刑法学研究会副会长、中德刑法学者联合会（CDSV）中方召集人。主要研究领域为刑法学与刑事政策学，著有《刑事政策：立场与范畴》《刑事法网：扩张与限缩》《刑事制裁：方式与选择》《刑法总论问题论要》等专著，联合主编《中国刑法评注》，发表学术论文近百篇。

What does it mean to understand the law? This challenging book discusses whether and how understanding the law is qualitatively different from understanding a different, non-legal text or linguistic utterance, and whether knowledge of a language is sufficient to understand legal content in that language. Providing a comprehensive overview of current studies of interpretivism, b...(展开全部)

'In the first lecture [The Enforcement of Morality, pp. 31-54] he set out the case for reforming the law on suicide, abortion, and homosexuality among the liberal, decriminalizing lines defended in Law, Liberty and Morality [1963]: 'The criminal law is a clumsy instrument and we wield it largely in the dark.' In the second lecture [Changing Conceptions of Responsibility, pp. 5-...(展开全部)

Every modern democratic state imprisons thousands of offenders every year, depriving them of their liberty, causing them a great deal of psychological and sometimes physical harm. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, the risk of the offender being harmed by other offenders is increased and all at great expense to the state. How can this brutal and costly enterprise be ju...(展开全部)

大卫·戴岑豪斯(David Dyzenhaus)，多伦多大学法学院法律与哲学教授，加拿大皇家学会会员。具有世界声誉的法理学家，牛津大学法律哲学博士，曾担任剑桥大学访问教授，剑桥宪法学丛书的

Book Description This new edition of Andrew Ashworth's popular and authoritative textbook incorporates all changes in the field of criminal law since the publication of the last edition in 1999. It addresses the underlying principles and rationales of criminal law, and has a more theoretical and stimulating approach than standard textbooks. It is an accessible, readable text th...(展开全部)

【英】杰瑞米·侯德（Jeremy Horder） 1989年获得牛津大学博士学位，曾执教于牛津大学、伦敦国王学院，2013年起为伦敦政治经济学院刑法学教授。著有《激怒与责任》《犯罪免责》《杀人罪和法律改革的政治》等书，已发表学术论文五十余篇。 译者 时延安，中国人民大学法学院教授、博士生导师，教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地中国人民大学刑事法律科学研究中心主任；中国犯罪学学会副会长，中国刑法学研究会常务理事。曾在纽约大学法学院、牛津大学犯罪学中心访学。在《中国社会科学》等刊物发表论文100余篇，出版3部专著，主编、译著12部。 史蔚，中国人民大学刑法学博士研究生，德国哥廷根大学联合培养博士研究生。

Andrew Ashworth addresses the underlying principles and rationales of criminal law, providing students with a depth and maturity of analysis that confronts the major challenges in criminal law. The book incorporates all the recent developments in criminal law, including the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and addresses current controversies such as the debate over the shape of the la...(展开全部)

【英】杰瑞米·侯德（Jeremy Horder） 1989年获得牛津大学博士学位，曾执教于牛津大学、伦敦国王学院，2013年起为伦敦政治经济学院刑法学教授。著有《激怒与责任》《犯罪免责》《杀人罪和法律改革的政治》等书，已发表学术论文五十余篇。 译者 时延安，中国人民大学法学院教授、博士生导师，教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地中国人民大学刑事法律科学研究中心主任；中国犯罪学学会副会长，中国刑法学研究会常务理事。曾在纽约大学法学院、牛津大学犯罪学中心访学。在《中国社会科学》等刊物发表论文100余篇，出版3部专著，主编、译著12部。 史蔚，中国人民大学刑法学博士研究生，德国哥廷根大学联合培养博士研究生。