... just to criminalpunishment, but to the criminal law itself: they object not to law as such,5Compare Raz, 1979, on the normative claims that law must make (see Duff, 1986: ch3); also Finkelstein, ... 2007be willing, independently of the law, to attack another’s life, but yet sorespectful of the law s authority that she would refrain from the attackbecause the law prohibited it? This suggests ... ‘breaking the law , but for thesubstantive wrong that we commit, and that the law defines as a criminal45See above, Ch 2 at n 25. Note that the reason is not ‘because it’s the criminal law ,since...