Law, Insecurity and Risk Control: Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt

by John Pratt and John Pratt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030488748
• ISBN13: 9783030488741
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"