Harm to Self

摘要: "The Moral Limits of Criminal Law" is a four-volume work that answers the question: what kinds conduct may legislature make criminal without infringing moral autonomy individual citizens? Volume three, "Harm to Self", tackles riddles associated with commonly proposed principle called "legal paternalism". It evaluates (and rejects) it can be right impose coercion on person "for his own good", whatever wishes in matter. Chapters this section discuss concept personal (or "sovereignty"), voluntariness, and assumption risk, as well "failures consent" because duress, fraud, other factors incompatible voluntary behaviour.