Hallie Ludsin

Preventive Detention and the Democratic State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tracks the transformation of preventive detention from an emergency measure into an ordinary law enforcement tool in the democratic world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9781107056060
• ISBN-10: 1107056063
• Artikelnr.: 44465984

Autorenporträt

Hallie Ludsin is a human rights lawyer and adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. She recently completed her Democracy Research Fellowship at Harvard University's Ash Center for Democratic Government and Innovation. Dr Ludsin is the co-author of Spiral of Entrapment: Abused Women in Conflict with the Law (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction
1. The theoretical framework
2. The policy debates
3. Preventive detention under international law
4. The history of preventive detention in India
5. India's current preventive detention legislation
6. India: preventive detention and due process
7. India: the risk society and the slippery slope
8. Preventive detention in England
9. England: preventive detention and due process
10. Preventive detention in the United States
11. The United States: preventive detention and procedural due process
12. Preventive detention's slippery slope
13. Preventive detention and liberal democracy
Bibliography
Index.