Preventive Justice

by Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198712537
• ISBN13: 9780198712534
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"