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Law, Insecurity and Risk Control - Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Law, Insecurity and Risk Control - Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management
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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 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.
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