Professor John Pratt graduated in law from London University before studying criminology for graduate degrees at the universities of Keele and Sheffield in England. His research interests are in the areas of the sociology and history of punishment, and criminological and social theory. Professor Pratt has published extensively in these areas, including 'Punishment in a Perfect Society' (1993), 'Governing the Dangerous' (1998), 'Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order (with Mark Brown, 2000), 'Punishment and Civilization' (2002). Since 1997, Professor Pratt has been editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
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Télécharger le livre : Law, Insecurity and Risk Control
John Pratt
Law, Insecurity and Risk Control
This book examines our contemporary preoccupation with risk and how criminal law and punishment have been transformed as a result of these anxieties. It adopts an historical approach to examine the development of risk control measures used across the US,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-05
Collection : Crime Prevention and Security Management
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Télécharger le livre : Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty
Jordan Anderson , John Pratt
Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty
This book examines the impact and implications of the relationship between risk and criminal justice in advanced liberal democracies, in the context of the ‘revolt against uncertainty’ which has underpinned the rise of populist politics across these societies in recent...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
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Télécharger le livre : Punishment and Civilization
John Pratt
Punishment and Civilization
`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as 'civilized' on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various numances and contradictions that form the backdrop to that 'civilization' prior to 1970 and the unraveling of that...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2002-07-10

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