Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social OrderMark Brown, John Pratt This highly controversial new book considers how the dangerous offender has become such a figure of collective anxiety for the citizens of rationalised Western societies. The authors consider: * ideas of danger and social threat in historical perspective * legal responses to violent criminals * attempts to predict dangerous behaviour * why particular groups, such as women, remain at risk from violent crime. This inspired collection invites us to rethink the received wisdom on dangerous offenders, and will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of criminology and the sociology of Risk. |
Contents
Risk societies and the government of crime | 17 |
Dangerousness and modern society | 35 |
Guerrillas in our midst? Judicial responses to governing | 51 |
managing the risk | 71 |
Calculations of risk in contemporary penal practice | 93 |
Criminal careers sex offending and dangerousness | 109 |
British press | 127 |
PART IV | 145 |
perception and management | 165 |
Dangerous states | 181 |
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