Lacey, Nicola 
ORCID: 0009-0006-6488-0918
(2023)
Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals (1965).
In: Kennedy, Chloë and Farmer, Lindsay, (eds.)
Leading Works in Criminal Law.
Analysing Leading Works in Law.
Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 82 - 112.
ISBN 9781032046259
Abstract
This chapter revisits Patrick Devlin’s famous text The Enforcement of Morals and the ensuing public debate between Devlin and H.L.A. Hart about whether criminal law should have a role in enforcing morality as such. The chapter summarises the work, and sets it in the context of the social and intellectual world in which it was written and received. The chapter then evaluates the significance and legacy of the debate for contemporary scholarship and policy debates, and in particular for the recent reinvigoration of the legal moralist tradition. It also poses the question of how its future place in the criminal law canon should be shaped by recent disclosures about Devlin’s own conduct.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | https://www.routledge.com/Leading-Works-in-Crimina... |
| Additional Information: | © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Chloë Kennedy and Lindsay Farmer; individual chapters, the contributors. |
| Divisions: | Law |
| Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2024 08:00 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 18:14 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/123775 |
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