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Wurde im NS-Staat die kapitalistische Ausbeutung auf die Spitze getrieben? Beruhte die Bändigung der Arbeiterklasse auf deren eigener Hinwendung zum Nationalsozialismus, auf der Unterdrückung durch Partei, Staat und Unternehmerschaft - oder auf der Bestechung durch sozialpolitische Zugeständnisse der Machthaber? Zu prüfen war ebenso die These, dass sich die Arbeitsverfassung unter der NS-Herrschaft im großen und ganzen ungestört und kontinuierlich weiterentwickelte, so dass die spezifischen Erscheinungen im "Dritten Reich" nur als Übergriffe der Nationalsozialisten auf ein ansonsten intaktes Arbeitsrechtsystem zu interpretieren seien. Dem Arbeitsrecht im NS-Staat kommt erhebliche politische Bedeutung zu, und so ist hier die vorliegende Darstellung ein Desiderat der Forschung. Der Autor behandelt nicht nur den gesamten Zeitraum von 1933 bis 1945, sondern greift auch auf die Vorgeschichte in der Weimarer Republik zurück. In seine vom Schwerpunkt her rechtshistorische Arbeit sind die Ergebnisse der jüngeren sozial-wirtschafts- und allgemeinhistorischen Forschung einbezogen. Die Bestandsaufnahme der arbeitsrechtlichen Gesetzgebung dient als Grundlage für die Untersuchung der Rechtsdurchsetzung durch Verwaltung und Gerichte. Die Studie wendet sich also nicht nur an Rechtshistoriker und historisch interessierte Juristen, sondern ebenso an alle, die sich mit den historischen Grundlagen der Sozialpolitik beschäftigen.

Labor laws and legislation --- Duress (Law) --- History. --- Coercion (Law) --- Compulsion --- Criminal liability --- Law --- Necessity (Law) --- Threats --- Torts --- Undue influence --- Law and legislation

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The number of people incarcerated in the U.S. now exceeds 2.3 million, due in part to the increasing criminalization of drug use: over 25% of people incarcerated in jails and prisons are there for drug offenses. Judging Addicts examines this increased criminalization of drugs and the medicalization of addiction in the U.S. by focusing on drug courts, where defendants are sent to drug treatment instead of prison. Rebecca Tiger explores how advocates of these courts make their case for what they call “enlightened coercion,” detailing how they use medical theories of addiction to justify increased criminal justice oversight of defendants who, through this process, are defined as both “sick” and “bad. ”Tiger shows how these courts fuse punitive and therapeutic approaches to drug use in the name of a “progressive” and “enlightened” approach to addiction. She critiques the medicalization of drug users, showing how the disease designation can complement, rather than contradict, punitive approaches, demonstrating that these courts are neither unprecedented nor unique, and that they contain great potential to expand punitive control over drug users. Tiger argues that the medicalization of addiction has done little to stem the punishment of drug users because of a key conceptual overlap in the medical and punitive approaches—that habitual drug use is a problem that needs to be fixed through sobriety. Judging Addicts presses policymakers to implement humane responses to persistent substance use that remove its control entirely from the criminal justice system and ultimately explores the nature of crime and punishment in the U.S. today.

Drug addicts --- Drug abuse --- Duress (Law) --- Drug courts --- Coercion (Law) --- Compulsion --- Criminal liability --- Law --- Necessity (Law) --- Threats --- Torts --- Undue influence --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Treatment --- Law and legislation

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Wertheimer attempts to move beyond previous theories of coercion by conducting a fairly extensive survey of the way in which cases involving coercion have been treated by American courts. This impressive project occupies the first half of the book, where he makes a convincing case that there is a fairly unified 'theory of coercion' at work in adjudication, past and present. This legal theory, however, is not entirely adequate for the purposes of social and political philosophy, and the last half of the book develops Wertheimer's more comprehensive philosophical theory.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Duress (Law) --- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. --- Coercion (Law) --- Compulsion --- Criminal liability --- Law --- Necessity (Law) --- Threats --- Torts --- Undue influence --- Law and legislation

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Are preventive justice measures justified? Do they needlessly blur the boundaries between criminal and civil law, signalling a change in the architecture of security? The contributors in this volume re-assess the foundations for the range of coercive measures that states now take in the name of prevention and public protection.

Preventive law. --- Criminal law --- Preventive detention. --- Organized crime --- Duress (Law) --- Philosophy. --- Prevention. --- Coercion (Law) --- Compulsion --- Criminal liability --- Law --- Necessity (Law) --- Threats --- Torts --- Undue influence --- Organized crime prevention --- Prevention of organized crime --- Crime prevention --- Detention, Preventive --- Detention of persons --- Practice of law --- Law and legislation

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The law has struggled for many years with the problem of how to accommodate those who commit crimes due to threats or circumstances. The modern ambivalence surrounding the defences of duress and necessity has its origins in the legal past. To date the defences of duress and necessity have been couched in terms such as compulsion, involuntariness and human frailty, resulting in the true nature of the defences being hidden. Psychologists and legal theorists have begun to re-examine the role of emotions in human action, including their effect upon behaviour and choice. In light of recent breakthroughs, Eimear Spain considers how the emotions experienced by those who act due to threats, both human and natural in origin, should affect the attribution of criminal responsibility and punishment. The understanding of emotions extrapolated in this book points towards a new rationale for the existing defences of duress and necessity.

Duress (Law) --- Necessity (Law) --- Defense (Criminal procedure) --- Criminal defenses --- Defense (Law) --- Defenses, Criminal --- Actions and defenses --- Criminal procedure --- Due process of law --- Trial practice --- Public defenders --- State of necessity --- Assistance in emergencies --- Criminal liability --- Justification (Law) --- Liability (Law) --- Self-defense (Law) --- Self-help (Law) --- Coercion (Law) --- Compulsion --- Law --- Threats --- Torts --- Undue influence --- Law and legislation --- General and Others