Harm and Offense Today
38 Pages Posted: 5 Jun 2023
Date Written: May 18, 2023
Abstract
In our time, notions of harm and offense, and the legally recognized incidents thereof, have been variously expanding, contracting, undergoing re-direction and re-focusing, and increasingly overlapping, if not merging into practical indistinguishability. In these respects, the mutations of judicially cognizable harm and offense have both tracked, and contributed to, our descriptive and our normative cultural judgments.
Keywords: harm, offense, Mill, injury, paternalism
JEL Classification: K10, K14
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Wright, R. George, Harm and Offense Today (May 18, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4452423 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4452423
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