Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 12
1 Risk societies and the government of crime......Page 28
2 Dangerousness and modern society......Page 46
3 Guerrillas in our midst Judicial responses to governing the dangerous......Page 62
4 Civil commitment as social control managing the risk of sexual violence......Page 82
5 Calculations of risk in contemporary penal practice......Page 104
6 Criminal careers sex offending and dangerousness......Page 120
7 Risk and blame in criminal justice controversies British press coverage and official discourse on prison security  1993 6......Page 138
8 Naturalising danger women fear and personal safety......Page 158
9 Drugs and dangerousness perception and management of risk in the neo liberal era......Page 176
10 Dangerous states......Page 192
Index......Page 206