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The preventive turn in criminal law /

Through a theoretical examination of the preventive turn in criminal law and justice which has gained momentum in Anglo-American criminal justice systems since the late-twentieth century, this work demonstrates how recent transformations in criminal law and justice are intrinsically related to and e...

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Main Author: Carvalho, Henrique (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the problem : liberal criminal law ad the preventive turn
  • Criminal subjectivity and socio-political imagination
  • Liberty, insecurity, and the conceptual foundations of reassurance
  • Mutual benefit, property, and the conceptual foundations of trust
  • Civil society, dangerousness, and the ambivalence of liberal civil order
  • Retrieving subjectivity : criminal law, terrorism, and the limits of political community
  • The preventive turn : an ambivalent law in an insecure world
  • Epilogue : criminal law, prevention, and the promise of politics.