Dangerous politics : risk, political vulnerability, and penal policy / Harry Annison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Annison, Harry Michael John, 1985- author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indeterminate sentences--Great Britain.

Indeterminate sentences.

Imprisonment--Great Britain--Costs.

Imprisonment.

Imprisonment--Costs.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xix, 256 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Clarendon Studies in Criminology aims to provide a forum for outstanding empirical and theoretical work in all aspects of criminology and criminal justice, broadly understood. The Editors welcome submissions from established scholars, as well as excellent PhD work. The Series was inaugurated in 1994, with Roger Hood at its first General Editor, following discussions between Oxford University Press and three criminology centres. It is edited under the auspices of these three criminological centres: the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics, and the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. Each supplies members of the Editorial Board and, in turn, the Series Editor. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Beginnings

1 Situating Imprisonment for Public Protection 3

A Political Analysis of Penal Policy 3

The Rise and Fall of the IPP 4

The IPP in Historical Context 13

The IPP in 'Technological' Context 17

The IPP in Cultural Context: The Rise of Uncertainty 19

The IPP in Political Context 22

Conclusion 27

A Note on Methodology 29

2 Origins: The Third Way, the Public Voice, and Political Vulnerability 30

A Perennial 'Real Problem' 31

The 'Enabling Tools'? The Role of Risk Assessment 36

Insecure Citizens and the Third Way Ideology 37

'Public Opinion' and Political Vulnerability 41

Conclusion 48

3 Construction: Ideologies, Expertise, and Illusory Democratizarion 50

The Political Steer 50

Haste and Distance 53

Shaping the Sentence 56

Warning Signs 63

Political Resistance 68

The Westminster Tradition and Illusory Democratization 72

Conclusion 74

Section II Effects

4 Contestation: Policy Participants and the Limits of the 'Acceptable Pressure Group' 77

Pressure Participants and Motivating Concerns 77

Policy Participants 80

Pressure Groups 82

Parliamentarians 84

Contestation Strategies 85

Outcomes, Legitimate Concerns, and 'Acceptable' Groups 96

Conclusion 101

5 Reining In: The Senior Judiciary, Liberal Concerns, and Precautionary Creep 103

Judicial Concerns 104

The Judiciary Respond 107

Post-Tariff Detention of IPP Prisoners 111

Liberal Resistance 119

A Senior Judicial Tradition 122

The Possibilities and Limits of the Senior Judicial Tradition 126

Conclusion 128

6 Rescuing the IPP: Negotiating Systemic and Political Risk 130

Confronting Systemic Risk 131

Confronting Political Risk 138

Making Sense of Successful Blame Avoidance 150

Conclusion 154

Section III Conclusions

7 Abolition: The End of the Road? 157

Enter Coalition: The IPP in an Age of Austerity 157

A Hard Won Compromise 161

The Labour Challenge 166

The Prisoners Left Behind 167

The Ideology of Abolition 174

Principled Leadership, Media Pressure, and Dummy Players 176

Conclusion 178

8 Lessons for Penal Theory: Risk, Political Vulnerability, and Illusory Democratization 180

Policymaking in the Risk Paradigm 181

The Public Voice and Political Vulnerability 185

Beyond Illusory Democratization 197

Conclusion 206.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198728603

9780198728603

OCLC:

920862586