Harry Annison

Dangerous Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Risk, Political Vulnerability, and Penal Policy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Draws on over 60 in-depth interviews with key policymakers to tease out the beliefs, traditions, and political processes that propelled the creation, contestation, and ultimate demise of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191044304
• Artikelnr.: 44753076

Autorenporträt

Dr Harry Annison is a Lecturer in Law at the Law School, Southampton University and a member of the University's Institute for Criminal Justice Research. His research interests centre upon the intersections between penal politics and criminological theory. He has also written on desistance from crime, judicial politics and is lead researcher for the Howard League for Penal Reform's 'Ideas for Justice/One Idea for Change' project.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Situating Imprisonment for Public Protection
* 2: Origins: The Third Way, the Public Voice, and Political
Vulnerability
* 3: Construction: Ideologies, Expertise, and Illusory Democratization
* 4: Contestation: Policy Participants and the Limits of the
'Acceptable Pressure Group'
* 5: Reining In: The Senior Judiciary, Liberal Concerns, and
Precautionary Creep
* 6: Rescuing the IPP: Negotiating Systemic and Political Risk
* 7: Abolition: The End of the Road
* 8: Lessons for Penal Theory: Risk, Political Vulnerability, and
Illusory Democratization