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Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order

MARK BROWN and JOHN PRATT (eds.), Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order. London and New York: Routledge, 2000, ix + 197 p.

Organized into four parts, this collection takes a critical approach towards penology and corrections. Unlike the usual practice of new-penology literature, which uses risk and danger to describe penal populations, the editors situate risk and danger in larger political and social contexts, as well as supply illustrative examples. The first, mainly theoretical, part of the book outlines the history of "risk" and "dangerousness." The second and third parts, largely empirical, outline how different countries have taken up the notions and implications of risk ...

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