Understanding Risk In Criminal Justice
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2003
205 pages
978-0-335-22603-0 (ISBN)
Description
This illuminating text examines the significance of the concept of risk in criminal justice policy, and in the role of criminal justice agencies and crime prevention initiatives. Particular features of the book include its use of practical examples, coverage of previously unpublished research, and a full review of current risk assessment tools for use with offenders. It is designed with undergraduate courses in mind, providing frequent summaries, lists of further reading, and a glossary.
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Hazel Kemshall
Understanding Risk in Criminal Justice
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series editor's foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 01 The rise of risk
- Introducing risk
- What is risk?
- Summary
- Late modernity and the risk society: new risks or new ways of looking at risk?
- The contention that the distinction between traditional and late modern risks is overstated
- The thesis that risks are under-regulated and weakened social control of technology has contributed to risk proliferation is incorrect
- The claim that the end of traditional bonds exacerbates risk is overstated
- The multiplication of risk is overemphasized
- Summary
- Risk and crime
- The demise of the modernist agenda
- Postmodernity and the rise of risk
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 02 The role of risk in criminal justice and penal policy
- Introducing the new penality
- The rise of risk and actuarial justice
- Theoretical approaches: class versus governmentality
- Risk and capitalism
- Risk and social order
- Risk avoidance and the 'management of bads'
- Risk and the role of modern thought
- Economic crime management and actuarial risk practices
- New right crime policies, advanced liberalism and risk
- Summary
- Punitive sovereignty and the place of risk
- Adaptive strategies
- Sovereign state strategies
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 03 Approaches to risk and risk assessment tools
- Introduction: approaches to risk and the 'two cultures'
- Artefact risk
- Constructivist risk
- Summary
- Epistemologies of risk and risk management
- Artefact risk and homeostatic risk management
- Social risk and negotiated risk management
- Summary
- Risk assessment tools
- Actuarial tools
- Third generation tools: the introduction of criminogenic need
- Summary
- The challenge of sexual and violent offenders
- Sexual offenders and relevant tools
- Violent offenders and relevant tools
- Concluding summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 04 Risk, dangerousness and the Probation Service
- Introduction
- A crisis of confidence
- The legislative and policy context: the Probation Service and the 'discovery' of the dangerous offender
- The Criminal Justice Act 1991 and the emergence of public protection
- Summary
- From dangerous to predatory: the rise of the predatory paedophile
- Summary
- Risk and Multi-Agency Public Protection Panels1
- Multi-Agency Public Protection Panels
- Key legislation and policy developments
- Professional judgement versus actuarial tool
- Risk classification and risk thresholds
- Professional values and occupational culture
- Summary
- Conclusion: risk and rehabilitation in Probation-transformation or accommodation?
- The emergence of a 'new rehabilitationism'
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 05 Risk and policing
- Introduction
- Late modern policing: transformation or continuity?
- Has public policing changed?
- Post-Keynesian policing: rhetoric or reality?
- Summary
- Risk-based policing
- Risk and community policing
- Partnership and community
- The rhetoric and the reality
- Intelligence-led policing
- Zero-tolerance policing
- Conclusion: new risks, new policing?
- Further reading
- Chapter 06 Risk and crime prevention
- Introduction
- Crime prevention as a risk-based discourse
- Third way crime prevention
- Community and communitarianism
- Partnership
- Legitimacy and responsibility
- The extension of the private sphere
- Tensions arising from the demands of managerialism
- Summary
- Crime prevention in practice
- Extending the net of social control
- Summary
- Alternatives to risk: possible futures
- The 'privatized fortress cities' model
- The 'authoritarian statist-communitarian' model
- The ' inclusive civic, safe cities' model
- Summary
- Conclusion: is crime prevention a risky business?
- Further reading
- Chapter 07 Concluding comments
- Pulling the threads together
- Risking the social
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
