Criminal law implications

This concept of criminal law makes sense of the bulk of existing criminal-law doctrine and institutions.
To my mind, it is the only concept of criminal law that can.
It is not a novel concept of criminal law, and it is consistent with nearly all theories of criminal law and punishment in current circulation.
But nor is it universally recognized.

Duff rightly diagnoses criminal law as unique by virtue of the fact that it censures particular acts in the polity’s name.
It is a mechanism of collective condemnation.
The Essay advocates recognition of this concept of criminal law and draws out implications for both criminal law theory and criminal law reform.
Prison abolition.
Reparations.