The question of dangerousness - how it should be defined and punished, and the ethical dilemmas associated with it - is a recurring theme of modern policy. This book addresses this question by explaining how dangerousness first became an object of penological discourse and why it has since remained so.

Governing the Dangerous: Dangerousness, Law and Social Change

Politics & Social Sciences

Pratt, Dr John

Social Sciences

Federation Press

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Governing the Dangerous: Dangerousness, Law and Social Change