Crime Prevention and Security Management: Restriction by Stealth

Moss, Kate

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-11-27

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230524675

DOI: 10.1057/9780230583023

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 184