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Title Handbook of public protection / edited by Mike Nash and Andy Williams
Published Abingdon ; New York : Willan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 474 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Part One: The Context of Public Protection; Introduction; Chapter 1 'Dangers by being despised grow great'; Chapter 2 Theorising dangerousness; Chapter 3 The politics of public protection; Part Two: Assessing and Managing Risk; Introduction; Chapter 4 Forensic risk assessment: Public protection versus offender rights; Chapter 5 Discretion and decision-making in public protection; Chapter 6 An epistemological chasm? Acturial risk assement through OASys
Summary Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years. Its high public profile and consequent political sensitivity means that growing numbers of criminal justice professionals find their daily workload dominated by the assessment and management of high risk of harm offenders. Developments such as sex offender registers and (in the UK) Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (Mappa) have made this issue not only a core activity for police, probation and prison services, but to a range of other orga
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain
Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- Great Britain
Offenses against public safety -- Great Britain -- Prevention
Risk assessment.
Risk Assessment
risk assessment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Criminal behavior, Prediction of
Criminal justice, Administration of
Offenses against public safety -- Prevention
Öffentlichkeit
Kriminalpolitik.
Allmän ordning och säkerhet.
Schutz.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Electronic books
Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author Nash, Mike, Dr.
Williams, Andy (Senior lecturer)
ISBN 9780203833292
0203833295
9781136842252
113684225X
9781136842207
1136842209
9781136842245
1136842241