Dangerous politics : risk, political vulnerability, and penal policy / Harry Annison.
2015
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Title
Dangerous politics : risk, political vulnerability, and penal policy / Harry Annison.
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Call Number
HV8715 .A56 2015
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0198728603
9780198728603
9780198728603
Description
xix, 256 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)920862586
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Section I
Beginnings
1.
Situating Imprisonment for Public Protection
3
Political Analysis of Penal Policy
3
Rise and Fall of the IPP
4
IPP in Historical Context
13
IPP in `Technological' Context
17
IPP in Cultural Context: The Rise of Uncertainty
19
IPP in Political Context
22
Conclusion
27
Note on Methodology
29
2.
Origins: The Third Way, the Public Voice, and Political Vulnerability
30
Perennial `Real Problem'
31
`Enabling Tools'? The Role of Risk Assessment
36
Insecure Citizens and the Third Way Ideology
37
`Public Opinion' and Political Vulnerability
41
Conclusion
48
3.
Construction: Ideologies, Expertise, and Illusory Democratization
50
Political Steer
50
Haste and Distance
53
Shaping the Sentence
56
Warning Signs
63
Political Resistance
68
Westminster Tradition and Illusory Democratization
72
Conclusion
74
Section II
Effects
4.
Contestation: Policy Participants and the Limits of the `Acceptable Pressure Group'
77
Pressure Participants and Motivating Concerns
77
Policy Participants
80
Pressure Groups
82
Parliamentarians
84
Contestation Strategies
85
Outcomes, Legitimate Concerns, and `Acceptable' Groups
96
Conclusion
101
5.
Reining In: The Senior Judiciary, Liberal Concerns, and Precautionary Creep
103
Judicial Concerns
104
Judiciary Respond
107
Post-Tariff Detention of IPP Prisoners
111
Liberal Resistance
119
Senior Judicial Tradition
122
Possibilities and Limits of the Senior Judicial Tradition
126
Conclusion
128
6.
Rescuing the IPP: Negotiating Systemic and Political Risk
130
Confronting Systemic Risk
131
Confronting Political Risk
138
Making Sense of Successful Blame Avoidance
150
Conclusion
154
Section III
Conclusions
7.
Abolition: The End of the Road?
157
Enter Coalition: The IPP in an Age of Austerity
157
Hard Won Compromise
161
Labour Challenge
166
Prisoners Left Behind
167
Ideology of Abolition
174
Principled Leadership, Media Pressure, and Dummy Players
176
Conclusion
178
8.
Lessons for Penal Theory: Risk, Political Vulnerability, and Illusory Democratization
180
Policymaking in the Risk Paradigm
181
Public Voice and Political Vulnerability
185
Beyond Illusory Democratization
197
Conclusion
206
Appendix I
Studying Penal Policymaking: Access, Ethics, and Power Relations
207
`Elite' Interviews
207
Making Sense of the Data
215
Conclusion
217
Appendix II
Timeline of Relevant Events
219
Bibliography
225
Index
253