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.