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Criminal law, philosophy and public health practice

Part of the Cambridge Bioethics and Law series
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The goal of improving public health involves the use of different tools, with the law being one way to influence the activities of institutions and individuals.

Of the regulatory mechanisms afforded by law to achieve this end, criminal law remains a perennial mechanism to delimit the scope of individual and group conduct.

Utilising criminal law may promote or hinder public health goals, and its use raises a number of complex questions that merit exploration.

This examination of the interface between criminal law and public health brings together international experts from a variety of disciplines, including law, criminology, public health, philosophy and health policy, in order to examine the theoretical and practical implications of using criminal law to improve public health.

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Cambridge University Press
1107022789 / 9781107022782
Hardback
31/10/2013
United Kingdom
English
288 pages : illustrations (black and white)
23 cm
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