The Insecurity State - Criminal Law After the Asbo

Zusatztext This is not just an exceptionally useful and well-informed book about the changing nature of law in the UK, but it is more importantly an attempt to situate these developments in the changing nature of the state. Informationen zum Autor Peter Ramsay studied Economics at Nottingham University. He then worked for more than a decade in public relations and publishing before studying law at the University of Westminster and University College London. He was appointed Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics in 2006 and completed his PhD at King's College London in 2008. Klappentext The Insecurity State offers a theoretical explanation of the expansive and authoritarian trends in modern Anglo-American criminal law and policy. Taking the iconic ASBO as an archetype, it examines the political theory behind the growth of criminal law and argues that modern security law risks weakening political authority itself. Zusammenfassung The Insecurity State offers a theoretical explanation of the expansive and authoritarian trends in modern Anglo-American criminal law and policy. Taking the iconic ASBO as an archetype, it examines the political theory behind the growth of criminal law and argues that modern security law risks weakening political authority itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Failure to Reassure as Threat 2: Failure to Reassure as Public Wrong 3: Freedom from Fear 4: The Reassurance Gap 5: The Ideology of Vulnerable Autonomy 6: The Right to Security and the ECHR 7: The Right to Security Beyond the ASBO 8: Security Interests in the Criminal Law 9: The Right to Security in Criminal Law Theory 10: The Insecurity State Afterword: On the Future of Authority

Product details

• Authors: Peter Ramsay, Peter (Senior Lecturer in Law Ramsay, Ramsay Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2011
• EAN: 9780199581061
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958106-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; England, Wales, LAW / Criminal Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Criminal justice law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Wales / Cymru