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THE INSECURITY STATE This page intentionally left blank The Insecurity State Vulnerable Autonomy and the Right to Security in the Criminal Law PETER RAMSAY 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,OxfordOX26DP UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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To the memory of my father This page intentionally left blank ’ General Editor s Introduction Inthismonographtheauthor,PeterRamsay,seekstoexcavateandtore-construct the political and legal foundations of one set of measures that have formed a prominent part of what he terms ‘the insecurity state’. The focus is on civil preventive orders and, in particular on the anti-social behaviour order. Ramsay demonstrates that this is best conceived not just as part of the criminal justice systembutratherasanexampleofawideranddeepertrendingovernmentpolicy. Thus the book contains a detailedpolitical and legal history of the ASBO,but all thetimetheprincipalconcernistoexaminehowthejustificationsforthismeasure wereconstructed.Ramsaylocatesthemintherighttosecurity,andheshowshow prevailing political theories—such as communitarianism, neoliberalism and the ThirdWay—haveinfluencedthesedevelopmentsandhowatheoryof‘vulnerable autonomy’has playeda significant part.This enables the authorto argue thatthe ASBO,asthearchetypalcivilpreventiveorder,hasreallybeenconcernedwiththe subject’sfailuretoreassureothers;and,heargues,thisfailuretoreassurecontinues toactuatetheproposedreplacementoftheASBO,aswellasothercivilpreventive orders.Thismonographthereforeconstitutesanessayinpoliticalsociology,using onewell-known(but,accordingtoRamsay,imperfectlyunderstood)development in England and Wales as a case study, and yet rolling out its argument to many recent developments of the criminal law in other jurisdictions. In its detailed and sophisticatedargumentaboutthefoundationsandmanifestationsofthe‘insecurity state’, this monograph is set to change and to enrich current debates about criminalization. AndrewAshworth This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements This book began life as a doctoral dissertation generously supported by an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I am grateful to the unfailingly helpfullibrariansoftheBodleianLawLibrarywheremostofitwaswritten. I am indebted to several people whose encouragement has been invaluable in writing the book, and whose influence has framed its arguments. I was very fortunate that Alan Norrie agreed to supervise the thesis. He has tried hard to keepmeonthestraightandnarrowpathofcritique.Icanonlyhopehesucceeded. NicolaLaceyhasbeenimmenselygenerouswithhertime,conversation andgood advice. This book owed her a great deal even before she read and commented on the manuscript. Andrew Ashworth and Lindsay Farmer were constructive exam- iners of the thesis and have continued to be supportive of the project since then. IamparticularlyindebttoLacey,Norrie,andFarmerfordoingsomuchbytheir own work to create the interdisciplinary space in which the political sociology of criminal lawthat I amtrying todo here has some roomtobreathe. Lucia Zedner and Markus Dubber have greatly encouraged me and provoked much of the thinkinginthisbook. Ben Bowling gave me some good steers early on. Chris Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe, and Alex Gourevitch talked about sovereignty in international relations inawaythatmademelookmorecarefullyatithereathome.StuartMacdonaldhas been an agile sparring partner on the ASBO. Jean-Francois Drolet, Audrey Gale, Lee Jones, Insa Koch, and Lynn Revell all made useful observations or provided goodleads. TheLSElawdepartmenthasbeenanintellectuallystimulatingandconstructive environmenttoworkinwhilewritingthebook.Mythankstoallmycolleaguesand tothestudents,butespeciallytoElyAharonson,ZeliaGallo,DavidKershaw,Nico Krisch,MartinLoughlin,EmmanuelMelissaris,JoMurkens,JillPeay,TomPoole, Mike Redmayne, Helen Reece, Robert Reiner, Charlie Webb, Grégoire Webber, andMikeWilkinson,whohaveallprovidedusefulquestions,commentsortipsat varioustimes. Anumberofcolleaguesgavemetheopportunitytotryouttheargumentsinthe book at conferences and seminars. On that score, my thanks to Markus Dubber, MichaelTonry,IanLoader,MireilleHildebrandt,LuciaZedner,StuartMacdonald, Antony Duff, Sandra Marshall, Victor Tadros, Ian Dennis, Bob Sullivan, Jesper Ryberg,andCarloPanara. The seeds of the thoughts harvested in this book were sown in the course of discussions on many subjects with James Heartfield. Suke Wolton read the entire manuscriptandpressurizedmetoexplainmoreclearlywhenIreallydidnotwant to.Shealsoputupwiththewritingofthethesis,thebook,andmuchelsebesides. Shemakesitpossible.
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