Prevention and the limits of the criminal law [electronic resource] / edited by Andrew Ashworth, Lucia Zedner, Patrick Tomlin. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (viii, 308 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Are preventive justice measures justified? Do they needlessly blur the boundaries between criminal and civil law, signalling a change in the architecture of security? The contributors in this volume re-assess the foundations for the range of coercive measures that states now take in the name of prevention and public protection.

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Preventive law.
Criminal law--Philosophy.

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