RT Book
T1 Fear of an Undeterrable Other
A1 Vars, Fredrick E.
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866139487
AB America is presently fighting a war on terror and a war on sex offenders. In each, the government openly detains hundreds of individuals not for what they have done, but for what they might do. Some warn that this greatest restriction on liberty may expand to other types of people. This Article examines the risk of such expansion by putting our current wars in historical perspective. The two main conclusions are: (1) some categories of people detained in prior periods are not being detained today; and (2) the risk of expansion is real but lower than previously suggested