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John Pratt

Law, Insecurity and Risk Control

Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt

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This book examines our contemporary preoccupation with risk and how criminal law and punishment have been transformed as a result of these anxieties. It adopts an historical approach to examine the development of risk control measures used across the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada - particularly since the 1980's - with the rise of the security sanction. It also takes a criminological and sociological approach to analysing shifts in criminal law and punishment and its implications for contemporary society and criminal justice systems. Law, Insecurity and Risk Control analyses the range and scope of the 'security sanction' and its im… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-030-48874-1
  • EAN: 9783030488741
  • Produktnummer: 37227626
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 408 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D2.1 cm 526 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 526

Über den Autor


John Pratt is Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His fields of research are comparative penology and the history and sociology of punishment. He has published in eleven languages and has been invited to lecture at universities in South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. His books include Punishment and Civilization (2002), Penal Populism (2007) and Contrasts in Punishment (2013). His work is often cited in the international media including TIME, The Observer and The Financial Times.

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