This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice directed by Professor Andrew
Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at the University of Oxford. The study seeks to …

'Officials are re-calibrating their understanding of the relationship between the past and the
future as it pertains to policing, security, and punishment. This volume offers cutting-edge …

Security has always been a core function of the modern state. Yet the rise of the Preventive
State captures an intensification of that role as threats to security and demands for public …

Abstract In Discipline and Punish Foucault famously declares that “our society is one not of
spectacle, but of surveillance.” Our theoretical aim in this paper is to problematize Foucault's …

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What
changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have …

This paper critically reflects on policy developments and debates in England in relation to
child protection and safeguarding over the past twenty years. It argues that the period from …

Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United
States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the …

Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with
structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of …

Contemporary social and political constructions of victimhood and offending behaviour lie at
the heart of regulatory policies on child sexual abuse. Legislation is named after specific …

Over the last fifteen years there has been a significant growth in literature dealing with
terrorism. Nevertheless, scholars within mainstream criminology have only recently begun to …