The Insecurity State: Vulnerable Autonomy and the Right to Security in the Criminal Law
Peter Ramsay, "The Insecurity State: Vulnerable Autonomy and the Right to Security in the Criminal Law "
English | ISBN: 0199581061 | 2012 | 300 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0199581061 | 2012 | 300 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Insecurity State is a book about the recent emergence of a 'right to security' in the UK's criminal law. The Insecurity State sets out from a detailed analysis of the law of the Anti-Social Behavior Order and of the Coalition government's proposed replacement for it. It shows that the liabilities contained in both seek to protect a 'freedom from fear' and that this 'right to security' explains a lot of other recently enacted criminal offences. This book identifies the normative source of this right to security in the idea of vulnerable autonomy. It demonstrates that the vulnerability of autonomy is an axiomatic assumption of political theories that have enjoyed a preponderant influence right across the political mainstream. It considers the influence of these normative commitments on the policy of both the New Labour and the Coalition governments.
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