Security and Liberty

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Retreat from Liberty

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   Pages 1-22

3. Constitutional Origins of Erosion

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   Pages 23-48

4. The Culture of Control

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   Pages 49-71

5. Detention Without Trial

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   Pages 72-95

6. Football Banning Orders

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   Pages 96-116

7. Secure Borders

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   Pages 117-139

8. Implications for Crime Reduction and Criminology

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   Pages 140-163

9. Back Matter

   Pages 164-184

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Considering the question of how levels of security allow state power to be increased to the point at which it infringes essential civil liberties, this book explores the creeping power of the executive and the unfeasibility of widespread use of the Human Rights Act as a bulwark against the oppressive use of state power.

• constitution
• crime
• criminology
• executive
• human rights
• policing

• Wolverhampton University, UK

  Kate Moss

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. 

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