This article reviews current social policy and penal policy responses to risk, with particular
attention to how policies of responsibilization have implications for rights leading to an …

Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a
gap in the field of criminology. In this fascinating expose of current crime policy John Pratt …

This book was prompted by concern that 'justice'is very much under threat in the 'risk
society'. In contemporary western societies adherence to long-held principles of justice is …

When asked to comment on the possibility of vigilante attacks in reaction to his decision to
release two juvenile murderers after eight years detention, British Home Secretary David …

'O'Malley, in this beautifully simple, insightful and erudite book, locates risk within a variety of
mentalities that have been, and are being, deployed to" govern crime"--in doing so he …

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 …

“governmental” order that deployed a wide variety of strategies, technologies, such as risk,
to achieve its ends. The intention of Foucault and his colleagues, however, had been to …

Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial
disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justice reinvestment from its …

The closing years of the 20th century saw the circulation of many theories proposing that
criminal justice and penality are undergoing radical transformation. The paper reviews the …

This book provides an account of the development of forensic identification technologies
and the way in which this has impacted upon the legal system. It traces the advent of …