TY - BOOK ID - 25419753 TI - Offense to others PY - 1985 VL - 2 SN - 0195052153 019503449X 0199785872 1435633520 1280449772 0198020546 9781435633520 9780198020547 9780195052152 0199878609 9780195034493 PB - New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Social ethics KW - Criminal law. Criminal procedure KW - Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law KW - Crimes without victims. KW - Criminal law KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Philosophy. KW - Morals offenses KW - Non-victim crimes KW - Offenses against public morality KW - Victimless crimes KW - Crime UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25419753 AB - The author focuses on the `offence principle', the principle that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. He examines the differences between minor and profound offences as well as the conceptual, moral, and judicial problems raised by obscenity, pornography, and 'dirty' words. ER -