Offense to Others (The Moral Limits of Criminal Law, Vol 2)

Examines the "offense principle" - the principle that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibition. Contents......Page 18 VOLUME TWO: OFFENSE TO OTHERS......Page 22 1. Disclaimers: the relative triviality of mere offense......Page 24 2. The model of nuisance law......Page 28 3. A ride on the bus......Page 33 4. The modes and meaning of "offense"......Page 37 5. The relation between offense and privacy......Page 45 1. On the scales: the seriousness of the offense......Page 48 2. On the scales: the reasonableness of the offending conduct......Page 60 3. Reading the balance......Page 67 4. Cultural change and the martyrdom of the premature......Page 70 5. Conclusion......Page 72 1. Limits to the nuisance model......Page 73 2. The distinctive characteristics of profound offense......Page 80 3. The bare knowledge problem again......Page 83 4. Solution of the bare knowledge problem......Page 87 5. The mistreatment of dead bodies......Page 95 6. Moral sensibility, sentimentality, and squeamishness......Page 100 7. The Nazis in Skokie......Page 109 8. Summary......Page 116 1. The judgmental sense of "obscene"......Page 120 2. Two apparently conflicting rationales for the prohibition of obscenity......Page 121 3. The analysis of judgmental obscenity......Page 125 4. The genesis of obscenity: vulgarity......Page 130 5. The genesis of obscenity: yukkiness......Page 135 6. The scope of the obscene: clues in extended applications......Page 138 7. An alternative account of obscenity: The view of D.A.J. Richards......Page 144 8. Summary: general characteristics of obscenity......Page 146 1. Is pornography obscene?......Page 150 2. Pornographic writing contrasted with literary and dramatic art......Page 152 3. Artful pornography: the film Emmanuelk......Page 156 4. Pornographic pictorial art, poetry, and program music......Page 158 5. Can pornography be art? The minimal relevance of the question......Page 159 6. How can sex (of all things) be obscene?......Page 161 7. The feminist case against pornography......Page 166 8. Violent pornography, the cult of macho, and harm to women......Page 170 9. Violent pornography and profound offense......Page 180 1. The offense principle and the first amendment......Page 188 2. Critique of judicial formulae: Hicklin and Roth......Page 194 3. Critique of judicial formulae: from Roth to Paris Adult Theatre......Page 201 4. Starting over again: some tips from Justice Brennan......Page 210 1. Classification of tabooed words......Page 213 2. Profanities......Page 215 3. Vulgarities......Page 228 4. Derivative uses of obscenity (A): vulgar reference......Page 231 5. Derivative uses of obscenity (B): vivid description, intensification, and colorful speech......Page 233 6. Derivative uses of obscenity (C): expressions of strong feeling......Page 234 1. Derivative uses of obscenity (D): invective and provocation......Page 241 2. The uses of invective......Page 244 3. The doctrine of fighting words and its difficulties......Page 249 4. The useful but limited role of obscene words in invective......Page 259 5. Derivative uses of obscenity (E): obscene wit and the "dirty joke"......Page 261 6. The useful but limited contribution of obscene words to obscene humor......Page 267 1. Context and paradox......Page 272 2. A distinction between distinctions: euphemism-cacophemism versus prophemism-disphemism......Page 274 3. The reaction to excessive euphemization......Page 277 4. Two strategies for ridding the language of obscene words......Page 281 5. An analysis of dirty-mindedness......Page 289 6. The case for retention of the obscene vocabulary......Page 292 1. Bare utterance and instant offense......Page 296 2. Offensive nuisance and harassment......Page 300 3. Obscenity on the public media: F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation......Page 304 4. The case against regulation of indecent language on the air waves......Page 309 Notes......Page 312 B......Page 344 E......Page 345 H......Page 346 M......Page 347 P......Page 348 S......Page 349 V......Page 350 Z......Page 351 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 of an "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 social policy, pornography and the Constitution, and the differences between minor and profound offenses. 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 The second volume of Joel Feinberg's work, "The Moral Limits of Criminal Law", a four-volume work that addresses the question: what kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizen? The 4th and final volume in the series defines the philosophical basis for criminalizing so-called "victimless crimes", such as pornography and consensual sexual activity. V. 1. Harm To Others -- V. 2. Offense To Others -- V. 3. Harm To Self -- V. 4. Harmless Wrongdoing. Joel Feinberg. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes.