Security and Liberty: Restriction by Stealth

ISBN-13: 9780230524675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 184 str.

Kate Moss-Brookes; Kate Moss; Martin Gill

Opis

Consideringthe questionof howlevels of security allow state power to beincreased to the point at which it infringes essential civil liberties, this book explores the creeping power of the executive andthe unfeasibility of widespread use of the Human Rights Act as a bulwark against the oppressive use of state power."

Spis treści

Preface by Ken Pease Series Preface by Martin Gill The Retreat from Liberty Constitutional Origins of Erosion The Culture of Control Detention Without Trial Football Banning Orders Secure Borders Implications for Crime Reduction and Criminology References

O autorze

KATE MOSS is Reader in Law in the School of Legal Studies, Wolverhampton University, UK. She has conducted extensive research and consultancy work for a wide range of institutions including the police, the Home Office and Centrex. She is co-editor of Crime Reduction and the Law and author of Medium Secure, Psychiatric Provision in the Private Sector.