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Modernity, risk, and contemporary crime control strategies as risk management :An analysis of sex offender statutes and the shift toward a risk society.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modernity, risk, and contemporary crime control strategies as risk management :
Reminder of title:	An analysis of sex offender statutes and the shift toward a risk society.
Author:	Cote, Suzette.
Description:	451 p.
Notes:	Major Professor: Simon I. Singer.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-01, Section: A, page: 0373.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-01A.
Subject:	Sociology, Criminology and Penology.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9958253
ISBN:	0599615370

Modernity, risk, and contemporary crime control strategies as risk management :An analysis of sex offender statutes and the shift toward a risk society.
Cote, Suzette.

Modernity, risk, and contemporary crime control strategies as risk management :An analysis of sex offender statutes and the shift toward a risk society.[electronic resource] - 451 p.

Major Professor: Simon I. Singer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2000.

In the 1990s, state legislatures and the federal government enacted a spate of legislation aimed at protecting the wider community from one of society's most hated criminals—the sex offender. Crime policies in the 1990s that deal with habitual, violent sex offenders reflect the greater use of risk management and actuarial principles to assess levels of risk, dangerousness, and future harm that this class of offenders poses to specific vulnerable groups and to society. Classifications according to potential future harm and dangerousness invoke notions of risk. Risk has become the primary organizing principle of crime control strategies today, as evidence by various sex crimes and the vehement reactions by the public to them. In other words, the shift that has occurred in penal law and the criminal justice system involves classifying individuals not based on what they have done but what they might do. This shift is important because risk-oriented crime policies challenge notions of crime causality, prevention, reduction of crime, and principles of proportionality that have formed the fundamental principles of modern criminology and penology.

ISBN: 0599615370Subjects--Topical Terms:

212412
Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

Modernity, risk, and contemporary crime control strategies as risk management :An analysis of sex offender statutes and the shift toward a risk society.
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520 # $a The goal of this study involves primarily demonstrating that contemporary sex offender legislation represents a growing shift in crime control policy-making decisions toward a concern for the risk of future harm rather than a specific policy for rehabilitation or even punishment of high-risk offenders. As modern society continues to become more complex, presenting increased levels of risk to people, social policies will also reflect that change. These statutes embody the reflexivity of diverse modern institutions that often enact policies that mirror the complexities within the social fabric rather than eradicate them. The study will attempt to show that crime control policies in the 1990s and beyond will continue to reflect the current state of modernity that presently exists by analyzing the language in and legislative intent and scope of the laws and the background factors that contributed to their enactment. I predict that current crime control policies dealing with high-risk sex offenders as well as other dangerous classes of violent offenders will continue to reflect this management trend.
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