Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner, PREVENTIVE JUSTICE Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com ), 2014. xix + 306 pp. ISBN 9780198712527. £50.
| Author | James Chalmers |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2015.0288 |
| Published date | 01 May 2015 |
| Date | 01 May 2015 |
| Pages | 294-295 |
Criminal law theory has difficulty in accommodating much of what is done by the modern state in the criminal context, difficulties which are especially stark where the state seeks not to respond to crime but to prevent it, sometimes invoking the civil process rather than the criminal. One response might be to argue that theoretical perspectives on criminal law
Such a response may be legitimate on its own terms, and criminal law theory's coherence may be all the better for it. But the broad reach of the preventive state is a reality, and one where there is an anxious need for proper work on its scope, theoretical underpinnings and...
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