Offense to Others

The second volume in Joel Feinberg's series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. Feinberg clarifies the concept ofan "offended mental state" and further contrasts the concept of offense with harm. He also considers the law of nuisance as a model for statutes creating "morals offenses," showing its inadequacy as a model for understanding "profound offenses," and discusses such issues as obscene words and socialpolicy, pornography and the Constitution, and the differences between minor and profound offenses.Feinberg, Joel is the author of 'Offense to Others' with ISBN 9780195034493 and ISBN 019503449X.