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Informationen zum Autor Hallie Ludsin is a human rights lawyer and adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. She recently completed her Democracy Research Fellowship at Harvard University's Ash Center for Democratic Government and Innovation. Dr Ludsin is the co-author of Spiral of Entrapment: Abused Women in Conflict with the Law (2005). Klappentext This book tracks the transformation of preventive detention from an emergency measure into an ordinary law enforcement tool in the democratic world. Zusammenfassung This book tracks the transformation of preventive detention from an emergency measure into an ordinary law enforcement tool in the democratic world. Comparing preventive detention in India! England and the United States! it brings to light its potentially dire consequences for the rule of law! due process rights and democratic principles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The theoretical framework; 2. The policy debates; 3. Preventive detention under international law; 4. The history of preventive detention in India; 5. India's current preventive detention legislation; 6. India: preventive detention and due process; 7. India: the risk society and the slippery slope; 8. Preventive detention in England; 9. England: preventive detention and due process; 10. Preventive detention in the United States; 11. The United States: preventive detention and procedural due process; 12. Preventive detention's slippery slope; 13. Preventive detention and liberal democracy; Bibliography; Index.
