RT Article
T1 Risk control, rights and legitimacy in the limited liability State
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 57
IS 6
SP 1322
OP 1339
A1 Pratt, John 1949-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/156475880X
AB Although controlling risk has become a prevalent theme in contemporary penal development in the main English-speaking societies, the range and extent of these measures is limited and specific, indicative of new obligations and reciprocities between state and citizen following post-1980s restructuring. Individuals are exhorted to take care of themselves, but the state remains committed to managing risks thought beyond their control and likely to cause irreparable harm through innovative penal measures. The paper explains how these have coalesced around risks to community cohesion and sexual attacks on women and children; and how these measures have then been legitimated, given that they contravene previous long-standing rules, principles and conventions intended to prohibit or restrict their use.
K1 risk
K1 insecurity
K1 rights
K1 public protection
K1 incivilities
K1 limited liability
K1 legitimacy
K1 Unsicherheit
K1 Öffentliche Sicherheit
K1 Kriminalitätsfurcht
DO 10.1093/bjc/azw065