Prevention and the limits of the criminal law /
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 prev...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "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 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191748072 9780191748073 9780191630743 0191630748 |