Pratt Law, Insecurity and Risk Control

Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-48872-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 387 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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 immobilizing  measures, ranging from control over minor incivilities to the most serious crimes. Despite these innovations, though, it argues that our anxieties about risk have become so extensive that the "security sanction" is no longer sufficient to provide social stability and cohesion.  As a consequence,  people have been attracted to the ‘magic’ of populism in a revolt against mainstream politics and organisations of government, as with the EU referendum in the UK and the US presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016. While there have been political manoeuvrings to rein back risk and place new controls on it, these have only brought further disillusionment, insecurity and anxiety. This book argues that the "security sanction" is likely to become more deeply embedded in the criminal justice systems of these societies, as new risks to both the well-being of individuals and the nation state are identified.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pratt, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. "Never Again".- 3. Set Risk Free.- 4. The Celebration of Risk.- 5. Fear and Anxiety in the Risk Society.- 6. The Rise of the Security Sanction.- 7. Issues of Legitimacy – Legal and Political.- 8. The Revolt against Uncertainty.- 9. The End.

Über Autor(innen)

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.