Synopses & Reviews
Examining the erosion of people's democratic rights and the potential catastrophic dangers of neglecting civil liberties, this bookexplores the endemic danger of the enlarged power of the state and the central role of Government in undermining personal freedoms through the use of state force in the name of the protection of security.
Synopsis
Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems and subjective lenses of perception to pressure governments to insure against risk. Globalization and federalism are two forces that promote convergence between Europe and America, while culture and politics often push governments down different roads. This tension is explored in case studies dealing with four cuttingedge risk frontiers: immigration, flood control, food safety and voting technology.
About the Author
KATE MOSSis Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Law, Social Science and Communications at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for Crime Reduction Initiatives and has also published Security and Liberty.
Table of Contents
Foreword;
M.MansfieldAcknowledgements
Liberty versus Security
Historical and Contemporary Deviations from Essential Civil Liberties
The Context of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998
Article 3 and Torture
Article 5 and Detention without Trial
Article 6 and Extraordinary Rendition
Securing Rights - But Which?
References
Index