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Just a decade ago security had little claim to criminological
attention. Today a combination of disciplinary paradigm shifts,
policy changes, and world political events have pushed security to
the forefront of the criminological agenda. Distinctions between
public safety and private protection, policing and security
services, national and international security are being eroded.
Post-9/11 the pursuit of security has been hotly debated not least
because countering terrorism raises the stakes and licenses
extraordinary measures. Security has become a central plank of
public policy, a topical political issue, and lucrative focus of
private venture but it is not without costs, problems, and
paradoxes. As security governs our lives, governing security become
a priority. This book provides a brief, authoritative introduction
to the history of security from Hobbes to the present day and a
timely guide to contemporary security politics and dilemmas. It
argues that the pursuit of security poses a significant challenge
for criminal justice practices and values. It defends security as
public good and suggests a framework of principles by which it
might better be governed. Engaging with major academic debates in
criminology, law, international relations, politics, and sociology,
this book stands at the vanguard of interdisciplinary writing on
security.
Just a decade ago security had little claim to criminological
attention. Today a combination of disciplinary paradigm shifts,
policy changes, and world political events have pushed security to
the forefront of the criminological agenda. Distinctions between
public safety and private protection, policing and security
services, national and international security are being eroded.
Post-9/11 the pursuit of security has been hotly debated not least
because countering terrorism raises the stakes and licenses
extraordinary measures. Security has become a central plank of
public policy, a topical political issue, and lucrative focus of
private venture but it is not without costs, problems, and
paradoxes. As security governs our lives, governing security become
a priority. This book provides a brief, authoritative introduction
to the history of security from Hobbes to the present day and a
timely guide to contemporary security politics and dilemmas. It
argues that the pursuit of security poses a significant challenge
for criminal justice practices and values. It defends security as
public good and suggests a framework of principles by which it
might better be governed. Engaging with major academic debates in
criminology, law, international relations, politics, and sociology,
this book stands at the vanguard of interdisciplinary writing on
security.
This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice
directed by Professor Andrew Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at
the University of Oxford. The study seeks to develop an account of
the principles and values that should guide and limit the state's
use of preventive techniques that involve coercion against the
individual. States today are increasingly using criminal law or
criminal law-like tools to try to prevent or reduce the risk of
anticipated future harm. Such measures include criminalizing
conduct at an early stage in order to allow authorities to
intervene; incapacitating suspected future wrongdoers; and imposing
extended sentences or indefinate on past wrongdoers on the basis of
their predicted future conduct - all in the name of public
protection and security. The chief justification for the state's
use of coercion is protecting the public from harm. Although the
rationales and justifications of state punishment have been
explored extensively, the scope, limits and principles of
preventive justice have attracted little doctrinal or conceptual
analysis. This book re-assesses the foundations for the range of
coercive measures that states now take in the name of prevention
and public protection, focussing particularly on coercive measures
involving deprivation of liberty. It examines whether these
measures are justified, whether they distort the proper boundaries
between criminal and civil law, or whether they signal a larger
change in the architecture of security. In so doing, it sets out to
establish a framework for what we call 'Preventive Justice'.
This book explores how the Victorians perceived and explained
female crime, and how they responded to it - both in penal theory
and prison practice. In Victorian England women made up a far
larger proportion of those known to be involved in crime than they
do today; the nature of female criminality attracted considerable
attention and preoccupied those trying to provide for women within
the penal system. Lucia Zedner's rigorously researched study
examines the extent to which gender-based ideologies influenced
attitudes to female criminality. She charts the shift from the
moral analyses dominant in the mid-nineteenth century to the
interpretation of criminality as biological or psychological
disorder prevalent later. Using a wide variety of sources -
including prison regulations, diaries, letters, punishment books,
grievances and appeals, Dr Zedner explores both penological theory
and the realities of prison life. This is a rich and scholarly
study, which reveals much about the relationship between responses
to female criminality and prevailing social values and concerns.
This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice
directed by Professor Andrew Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at
the University of Oxford. The study seeks to develop an account of
the principles and values that should guide and limit the state's
use of preventive techniques that involve coercion against the
individual. States today are increasingly using criminal law or
criminal law-like tools to try to prevent or reduce the risk of
anticipated future harm. Such measures include criminalizing
conduct at an early stage in order to allow authorities to
intervene; incapacitating suspected future wrongdoers; and imposing
extended sentences or indefinate on past wrongdoers on the basis of
their predicted future conduct - all in the name of public
protection and security. The chief justification for the state's
use of coercion is protecting the public from harm. Although the
rationales and justifications of state punishment have been
explored extensively, the scope, limits and principles of
preventive justice have attracted little doctrinal or conceptual
analysis. This book re-assesses the foundations for the range of
coercive measures that states now take in the name of prevention
and public protection, focussing particularly on coercive measures
involving deprivation of liberty. It examines whether these
measures are justified, whether they distort the proper boundaries
between criminal and civil law, or whether they signal a larger
change in the architecture of security. In so doing, it sets out to
establish a framework for what we call 'Preventive Justice'.
Following in the tradition of the Clarendon Law Series, Criminal
Justice is an extended essay on the core concepts, structures, and
processes of the criminal justice system. The book prefers
theoretical reflection above detailed description and favours
provocative questions over simple answers. Its primary aim is to
stimulate students of criminal justice to think critically about
what they have learned. Criminal Justice challenges conventional
understanding of crime, criminal justice and punishment by
revealing their meanings to be open to multiple interpretations. It
explores the historical contingency and cultural specificity of the
institutions and practices of criminal justice. And it considers
the many, often conflicting, roles fulfilled by the various players
in the criminal process. In so doing, it reveals criminal justice
to be more diverse and its purposes more contested than
conventional accounts allow. The book concludes by examining
radical changes in crime control and the pursuit of security and
considering their import for criminal justice as we know it.
Child Victims explores the range and extent of crimes committed
against children and assesses their impact. The testimony of over
two hundred children gives voice, for the first time, to their
experiences, their views, and their needs. It examines how children
attain the status of `victims' in the criminal justice system.
Drawing on recent research findings, the authors examine each stage
of the legal process that a child encounters, from the initial
reporting of the offence, through police investigation, to the
trial itself. They contrast the specialist response to victims of
child sexual abuse with the experience of children who are victims
of other crimes, thrust into an adult system which takes little
account of their needs. Child Victims concludes by examining the
role of support services and agencies dealing with child victims,
and makes a number of key recommendations for future policy.
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