Dangerous politics : risk, political vulnerability and penal policy /

This volume draws on over 60 in-depth interviews with key policymakers to tease out the beliefs, traditions, and political processes that propelled the creation, contestation, and ultimate demise of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.

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Situating imprisonment for public protection --
Origins : the third way, the public voice, and political vulnerability --
Construction : ideologies, expertise, and illusory democratization --
Contestation : policy participants and the limits of the "acceptable pressure group" --
Reining in : the senior judiciary, liberal concerns, and precautionary creep --
Rescuing the IPP : negotiating systematic and political risk --
Abolition : the end of the road? --
Lessons for penal theory : risk, political vulnerability, and illusory democratization.
1. Verfasser:
Annison, Harry
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
This volume draws on over 60 in-depth interviews with key policymakers to tease out the beliefs, traditions, and political processes that propelled the creation, contestation, and ultimate demise of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.
Umfang:
1 online resource (289 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-104430-X
0-19-179542-9
0-19-104429-6
Schlagworte:
Debt, Imprisonment for > Great Britain.
Indeterminate sentences > Great Britain.
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