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• Title:Governing the dangerous : dangerousness, law, and social change / John Pratt.
  
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• Author/Creator:Pratt, John, 1949-
  
• Published/Created:Sydney : Federation Press, 1997.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HV6049 .P73 1997
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Violent crimes--Social aspects.
  Danger perception.
  Risk perception.
  Recidivists.
  Mentally ill offenders.
  Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects.
  
• Description:vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Explains how dangerousness first became an object of penological discourse and why it has since remained so. Draws on material from Australia, New Zealand, England, the United States, and Canada.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-214) and index.
  
• ISBN:1862872686 (hbk.)
  9781862872684 (hbk.)
  1862872678 (pbk.)
  9781862872677 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction: risk, governance, dilemma
  2. Dangerousness: the birth of a concept
  3. Welfare and security
  4. Psychology, governance and sex crime
  5. From dangerous to inadequate
  6. Self-governance, neo-liberalism and the renaissance of dangerousness
  7. The care of the self
  8. The neo-liberal state and dangerousness
  9. Living with freedom.