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The insecurity state : vulnerable autonomy and the right to security in the criminal law / Peter Ramsay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramsay, Peter.
- Series:
- Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
- Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Anti-social behavior act 2003.
- Great Britain.
- Nuisances--Great Britain--Criminal provisions.
- Nuisances.
- Nuisances--United States--Criminal provisions.
- Criminal law--Great Britain.
- Criminal law.
- Criminal law--United States.
- Comparative law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (611 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 shows that the liabilities contained in both seek to protect a 'freedom from fear'and that this 'right to security' explains a lot of other recently enacted criminal offences. This bookidentifies the normative source of this right to security in the idea of vulnerable autonomy. It demonstrates that the vulnerability of aut
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; General Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Failure to Reassure as Threat; 2 Failure to Reassure as Public Wrong; 3 Freedom from Fear; 4 The Reassurance Gap; 5 The Ideology of Vulnerable Autonomy; 6 The Right to Security and the ECHR; 7 The Right to Security Beyond the ASBO; 8 Security Interests in the Criminal Law; 9 The Right to Security in Criminal Law Theory; 10 The Insecurity State; Afterword: On the Future of Authority; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes; introduction-fn; ch01-fn; ch02-fn
- ch03-fnch04-fn; ch05-fn; ch06-fn; ch07-fn; ch08-fn; ch09-fn; ch10-fn; afterword-fn
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-254) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-174100-0
- 1-283-58001-2
- 9786613892461
- 0-19-162756-9
- 0-19-162161-7
- OCLC:
- 801810927
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