Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State

What is the criminal law for? One influential answer is that the criminal law vindicates pre-political rights and condemns wrongdoing. On this account, the criminal law has an intrinsic subject matter-certain types of moral wrongdoing-and it provides a distinctive response to that wrongdoing, namely condemnatory punishment.

In Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State, Vincent Chiao offe...