Abstract
Dramatic changes to criminal law have been occurring since the 1980s. These reflect the way in which it has taken on a risk-prevention role, in addition to what had previously been its carefully limited capacity to react to crime that has been committed. In contrast, this new capability takes the form of a range of controls that are intended to prevent crime occurring, a change that had hitherto been largely prohibited or greatly restricted in the common law jurisdictions on which this book is based—the US, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Penal policy has also been harnessed to this process, to the point where risk considerations have become the most important determinant of prison design, bail and parole decision-making and much of the sentencing in between.
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The exceptions to this, which have the potential to take prevention into broader areas of law breaking, are serious crime prevention orders, available in England and Wales from 2015 and New South Wales from 2016. While the former targets slavery, prostitution and child sex crime, these orders can also be used to prevent, inter alia, money laundering, fraud, blackmail and organised crime. In the latter, the target seems to be drug trafficking.
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Pratt, J. (2020). Introduction. In: Law, Insecurity and Risk Control. Crime Prevention and Security Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48872-7_1
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