Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order: Brown, Mark: 9780415200479: Book: Social Science: eCampus.com

In this era of unparalleled affluence, the dangerous offender has become a figure of collective anxiety for the citizens of rationalized Western societies. Questions of why sexual and violent offences seem so ubiquitous, and of how we should protect ourselves, has produced a glut of political and media rhetoric in recent years.

Notes on contributors

vii

Introduction

(14)

Mark Brown

John Pratt

PART I Dangerousness: a sociological history

(34)

Risk societies and the government of crime

(18)

Pat7 O'Malley

Dangerousness and modern society

(14)

John Pratt

PART II Legal responses and responsibilities

(42)

Guerrillas in our midst? Judicial responses to governing the dangerous

(20)

Arie Freiberg

Civil commitment as social control: managing the risk of sexual violence

(20)

Eric Janus

PART III Practical risks: danger in the penal context

(54)

Calculations of risk in contemporary penal practice

(16)

Mark Brown

Criminal careers, sex offending and dangerousness

109

(18)

Roderic Broadhurst

Risk and blame in criminal justice controversies: British press coveraged and official discourse on prison security (1993--6)

127

(18)

Richard Sparks

PART IV Violence, danger and modern government: the future

145

(50)

Naturalising danger: women, fear and personal safety

147

(18)

Elizabeth Stanko

Drugs and dangerousness: perception and management of risk in the neo-liberal era

165

(16)

Adam Sutton

Dangerous states

181

(14)

Nils Christie

Index

195


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