Politics and Public Protection
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Sitting at the extreme end of criminal justice and offending behaviour, public protection policy has been politicised and used to reshape wider debates. Exploring the development of public protection policy and legislation since the early 1990s, Politics and Public Protection considers the necessity for extreme measures and the actual extent of serious crime to unveil the populist nature of the way political debates have been framed over time.
Analysing the UK setting where the public protection debate has been ‘weaponised’ to create public fear and ‘with us or against us’ positions, authors Mike Nash and Andy Williams chronicle how this form of politics has now extended into a range of policy areas, including Brexit. Emphasising the political context of the evolution of public protection policy over time, the chapters investigate different types of dangerous criminal behaviour, public protection agencies and responses to panic and failure, providing a critical analysis of the use of risk to reshape and reframe public protection policy and practice.
Responding to the need for an updated discussion on public protection and criminal justice legislation that links the past to the present, Politics and Public Protection closely examines the interplay between politics and extreme criminal justice measures.
Part One. What is Dangerousness?
- Introduction: Dangerousness, Politics and Public Protection
- Chapter 1. The Dangerous Offender Population
- Part Two. Public Protections Responses
- Chapter 2. Legislation: To Punish, To Protect and What?
- Chapter 3. The Agencies of Public Protection: Prisons, Parole and the Police Prison Service
- Chapter 4. The Probation Service: At the Heart of Everything?
- Part Three. Other Dangerous Groups
- Chapter 5. Mentally Ill and Personality Disordered Offenders
- Chapter 6. Terrorism and Terror Related Offenders
- Part Four. Current Issues and Trends in Public Protection
- Chapter 7. Serious Further Offending: Hindsight Bias and Political Scapegoating
- Chapter 8. Citizen led public protection: The Public’s Response to Bad Public Protection Politics
- Conclusion
Mike Nash was previously Head of Department and Professor of Criminology at the SSCJ, University of Portsmouth. As a former senior probation officer, he has worked in prisons, as well as on the early development of what were to become the multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA).
Andy Williams is Principal Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at SCCJ, University of Portsmouth. He has developed academic courses and practitioner training in understanding risk and dangerousness for violent and sexual offenders and has undertaken numerous evaluations of public protection systems.