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Title Prevention and the limits of the criminal law / edited by Andrew Ashworth, Lucia Zedner and Patrick Tomlin
Edition 1st ed
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 308 pages) : illustrations
Contents The ubiquity of prevention / Frederick Schauer -- Preventionism and criminalization of nonconsummate offences / Petter Asp -- Preventive justice : the quest for principle / Markus Dubber -- Responsibility to protect and preventive justice / Klaus Günther -- Preventive justice and the rule-of-law project / David Dyzenhaus -- Pre-trial detention and the presumption of innocence / R.A. Duff -- Controlling risk / Victor Tadros -- Restraining orders, liberty, and due process / James W. Nickel -- Preventive detention as punishment? : Some possible obstacles / Douglas Husak -- Proportionality as a limit on preventive justice : promises and pitfalls / Carol S. Steiker -- Democratic limits to preventive criminal law / Peter Ramsay -- On preventive justice / Matt Matravers -- Punitive preventive justice : a critique / Bernard E. Harcourt -- The politics of mass preventive justice / Pat O'Malley
Summary Are preventive justice measures justified? Do they needlessly blur the boundaries between criminal and civil law, signalling a change in the architecture of security? The contributors in this volume re-assess the foundations for the range of coercive measures that states now take in the name of prevention and public protection
Notes "This book is the product of two seminars held at All Souls College, Oxford, at which 14 leading international scholars in the fields of criminal law, public law, legal theory, criminology, philosophy, and political theory presented and discussed early drafts of what were to become the chapters collected in this volume"--Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Preventive law.
Criminal law -- Philosophy
Preventive detention.
Organized crime -- Prevention.
Duress (Law)
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Criminal law -- Philosophy
Duress (Law)
Organized crime -- Prevention
Preventive detention
Preventive law
Criminality.
Public security.
Infraction.
Preventive measures.
Detention.
Criminal law.
Form Electronic book
Author Ashworth, Andrew.
Zedner, Lucia.
Tomlin, Patrick.
All Souls College (University of Oxford)
ISBN 0191748072
9780191748073
9780191630743
0191630748