Download or read book Personal Autonomy, the Private Sphere and Criminal Law written by Peter Alldridge and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compares legal cultures and underlying assumptions about privacy, personal autonomy, and justifications for state intervention in individual behavior through criminal law, focusing primarily on England, Wales, and continental Europe. In theory , at least, Europeans increasingly share a common culture of basic individual rights and of standards against which to measure the legitimacy of state interference with them, as expressed by the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. At the same time, the development of a supra-national economic and social order is pushing national criminal justice systems further toward a shared instrumentalist perception of criminal law. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.