Criminalizing Conduct
Criminalizing Conduct: Harm Principle Re-considered
Synopsis
To criminalize a certain act is to declare that act illegal and devise sanctions in response to that act. This process of criminalizing an act is a rather extreme form of censuring whereby that particular conduct is made both unlawful and punishable. Hence, on what basis do we make the colossal leap in distinguishing what is wrong from what is right, and what should be prohibited from what should be allowed? The proceeding paragraphs, which are aimed to be exploratory and expository in nature, will seek to introduce the Harm Principle (HP), establish its superiority over the other criteria for criminalizing conduct, and ultimately expose some of the inherent weaknesses of the principle before attempting to fill these loopholes to enhance the concept of the HP so that it can be used more broadly and assuredly in the realm of criminalizing conduct.
Introduction to Criminalizing Conduct and the Harm Principle
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