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Author Ugelvik, Synnove

Title Justice and Security in the 21st Century : Risks, Rights and the Rule of Law
Published Hoboken : Taylor & amp ; Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
Routledge studies in liberty and security.
Contents Cover; Justice and Security in the 21st Century Risks, rights and the rule of law; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Structure of the book; 1. Introduction: New landscapes of security and justice; 2. Who needs justice? Who needs security?; Introduction; Too much security?; Too little security, too little justice; Conflicting values or issues of distribution?; The slum and the camp; Balancing security and justice; Security and justice in global perspective; Concluding comments; 3. EU citizenship and the new landscape of fundamental rights: a conceptual sea change; Introduction
A Bill of Rights for EU citizensA Bill of Rights for the people of Europe; The transformation of rights; Conclusions; 4. The justice of crimmigration law and the security of home; Introduction; Constructing crimmigration: the merging of criminal and immigration law; Crimmigration law and its consequences; Justice, security, and the future of crimmigration law; Penalising migration; Critiquing proportionality; Conclusion; 5. Imprisoned on the border: subjects and objects of the state in two Norwegian prisons; Globalisation and the Norwegian prison; Becoming a (state) subject
The pastoral prison, the black sheep and the wolvesResisting wolf status; Conclusion; 6. Punishing the uncommitted crime : Prevention, pre-emption, precaution and the transformation of criminal law; 'Alice in Wonderland' justice; The preventive state; The preventive turn in criminal law; Influences 1: crime prevention; Influences 2: preventive punishment; Influences 3: from justice to security; Influences 4: the precautionary principle; Ethical concerns; Presumption of innocence; False positives and false negatives; Change of mind; 'Better still'?
7. It takes a crisis : Dilemmas of democracy in Norwegian emergency lawA Introduction: democracy untied; B Contextualising emergency powers; C The practice of emergency powers after 9/11; D The Republican tradition of emergency law; E Emergency powers in Norwegian law: forever fighting the last war; F The ethos of the exceptional emergency measures; 8. Urbanscapes of injustice and insecurity; 1 Defining up deviancy: the new-found role of the local; 2 From defence to safety: deviance as permanent exception; 3 The pre-emptive city: zero tolerance for uncertainty and diversity
4 Citizens, but not quite: the shrinking boundaries of belonging5 Security at the core of the local policy agenda; 6 Conclusion: trading off the wrong things?; 9. Security, justice and the criminal justice system : Remarks on EU criminal law; Introductory remarks; Security and crime control, justice and criminal justice; Crime control and criminal justice as elements of the criminal justice system; Do we need a criminal justice system in order to secure crime control and criminal justice?; A possible diagnosis for the EU: deficient system structures?
Summary This book examines the question of whether justice or security is the primary virtue of 21st-century society. The issue of enhancing security without undermining justice -- managing risk without undermining the rule of law -- has always been problematic. However, recent developments such as new counter-terrorism measures, the expanding scope of criminal law, harsher migration control and an increasingly pronounced concern with public safety, have posed new challenges. The key element of these contemporary challenges is that of membership and exclusion: that is, who is to be included within the
Notes Treatment: the necessity of a system perspective in EU criminal law
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Subject Equality before the law.
Justice.
Security, International.
National security.
Equality before the law
Justice
National security
Security, International
Form Electronic book
Author Hudson, Barbara
ISBN 9780203125588
0203125584