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The Insecurity State

The Insecurity State

Ramsay, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice

LinguisticsGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0199581061
ISBN13: 9780199581061
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 18 2012
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The Insecurity State is a book about the recent emergence of a 'right to security' in the UK's criminal law. The Insecurity State sets out from a detailed analysis of the law of the Anti-Social Behavior Order and of the Coalition government's proposed replacement for it. It shows that the liabilities contained in both seek to protect a 'freedom from fear' and that this 'right to security' explains a lot of other recently enacted criminal offences. This book identifies the normative source of this right to security in the idea of vulnerable autonomy. It demonstrates that the vulnerability of autonomy is an axiomatic assumption of political theories that have enjoyed a preponderant influence right across the political mainstream. It considers the influence of these normative commitments on the policy of both the New Labour and the Coalition governments. The Insecurity State then explores how the wider contemporary criminal law also institutionalizes the right to security, and how this differs from the law's earlier protection of security interests. It examines the right to security, and its attendant penal liabilities, in the context of both human rights protection and normative criminal law theories. Finally the book exposes the paradoxical claims about the state's authority that are entailed by penal laws that assume the vulnerability of the normal, representative citizen.

The Insecurity State offers a criminal law theory that is unorthodox in both its method and its content:

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