Securitized societies : the rule of law : history of a free fall / Peter-Alexis Albrecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albrecht, Peter-Alexis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internal security.

National security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hauptbeschreibung The path towards ""Securitized Societies"" reconstructs this paradigm shift by looking at penal law and the criminal justice system. Over a time span of 40 years, the development from a social-integrative penal law of the welfare state to the preventive state to the securitized society is followed from the perspective of a criminologist and professor of penal law. The novelty lies in the perspective of the participating observer who comments on the criminal justice system not from the lectern but who ventures into the system and reports from experience, whether at

Contents:

Foreword; Contents; Table of Contents; Prologue: On the Intentions of this Book; Part One: The Predominant Paradigm of Prevention in Criminal Law and University Teaching; First Section:Biographical Introduction; A. Experienced Ambivalence in 40 Years:Scientific Challenges and the Failure of University Teaching; B. The Wealth of Academic Teaching Challenges for Criminal Law; C. The Failures of Instructing Scientific Methods in UniversityLegal Education; Second Section:Theories of Criminality and Criminalization; The Interdisciplinary Preventive Contextof Criminality and Criminalization

A. Theories of Criminality and PreventionI. Etiological-Individual Approaches; II. Etiological-Structural Approaches; III. Individual-Oriented Labeling Approaches; IV. Socially-Oriented Definitional Approaches; B. Theories of Criminalization and Prevention; I. Theories of Peno-Legal Criminal Controls as Creators of Legitimacyfor Criminal Law; II. Restitution and Retribution; III. Specific Deterrence; IV. General Prevention; V. Unification "Theory" and Integration Prevention

Third Section: Conclusions on Theories of Criminality and Criminalization and Their (Lack of) Instruction in Academic TeachingI. Criminology's Approach to Prevention; II. Penal Law's Approach to Prevention; III. On the Disadvantage of the Retreat and the Necessity of theContinuance of the Empirical Legal Education at Universities; Part Two: The Socio-Integrative Penal Law of the Social State; First Section:Biographical Introduction; Second Section:Contributions; Friendlier Walls?- On the Critique of Social Therapy in the Penal System -; What did the reformers want?; Ideological controversies

Deceit instead of violenceA positive selection bias; No "free therapy market"; Only superficial assistance in adjusting; Resocialization as an empty phrase; Pathologized and put into therapy; Social limits to growth; The Juvenile Penal System and Crime Prevention- Structures and Problems of Juvenile Sentencingfor 14- and 15-Year Olds -; 1. On the Criminal Policy Context of the Research Project; 2. The Reproduction of Loss of Socio-Economic Status by Juvenile Imprisonment; 3. Alternatives to Juvenile Imprisonment; Third Section:Conclusions on the Welfare State's Penal Law

I. The Availability of Criminological Knowledge for a Liberty-OrientedCriminal Policy of Reason and Human Dignity in the Welfare StateII. The Integrative Model in the Context of the Welfare State Economy; III. The End of the Welfare State at the Beginning of the 1980s; IV. State Guarantees as Respect of Human Dignity and Human Rights; Part Three: The Turn to a Preventive State; First Section:Biographical Introduction; Second Section:Contributions on the Prevention Paradigm; I. The Prevention Paradigm and Empiricaland Theoretical Skepticism; 1. Introduction; 2. Contribution

Prevention as a Problematic Objectivein the Criminal Justice System

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

3-8305-2706-3

OCLC:

811491999