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The insecurity state : vulnerable autonomy and the right to security in the criminal law /

The Insecurity State is a book about the recent emergence of a 'right to security' in the UK's criminal law. The Insecurity State sets out from a detailed analysis of the law of the Anti-Social Behaviour Order and of the Coalition government's proposed replacement for it. It show...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramsay, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
Subjects:
Nuisances > Great Britain > Criminal provisions.
Nuisances > United States > Criminal provisions.
Criminal law > Great Britain.
Criminal law > United States.
Comparative law.
Nuisances privées > Grande-Bretagne > Droit pénal.
Nuisances privées > États-Unis > Droit pénal.
Droit comparé.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Comparative law
Criminal law
Great Britain
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Failure to reassure as threat
  • Failure to reassure as public wrong
  • Freedom to fear
  • The reassurance gap
  • The ideology of vulnerable autonomy
  • The right to security and the ECHR
  • The right to security beyond the ASBO
  • Security interests in the criminal law
  • The right to security in criminal law theory
  • The insecurity state.