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Preface Acknowledgements Chapter One: The Amount of Criminal Law I: Too Much Punishment, Too Many Crimes Ii: How More Crimes Produce Injustice Iii: The Content of New Offenses Iv: An Illustration of Overcriminalizaton Chapter Two: Internal Constraints on Criminalization I: The General Part of Criminal Law Ii: From Punishment to Criminalization Iii: A Right Not to Be Punished? Iv: Malum Prohibitum Chapter Three: External Constraints on Criminalization I: Infringing the Right Not to Be Punished Ii: The Devil in the Details Iii: Crimes of Risk-Prevention Chapter Four: Alternative Theories of Criminalization I: Law and Economics Ii: Utilitarianism Iii: Legal Moralism
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