Are preventive justice measures justified? Do they needlessly blur the boundaries between criminal and civil law, signalling a change in the architecture of security? The contributors in this volume re-assess the foundations for the range of coercive measures that states now take in the name of prevention and public protection.

Introduction ; 1. The Ubiquity of Prevention ; 2. Preventionism and Criminalization of Nonconsummate Offences ; 3. Preventive Justice: The Quest for Principle ; 4. Responsibility to Protect and Preventive Justice ; 5. Preventive Justice and the Rule-of-Law Project ; 6. Pre-Trial Detention and the Presumption of Innocence ; 7. Controlling Risk ; 8. Restraining Orders, Liberty, and Due Process ; 9. Preventive Detention as Punishment? Some Possible Obstacles ; 10. Proportionality as a Limit on Preventive Justice: Promises and Pitfalls ; 13. Democratic Limits to Preventive Criminal Law ; 14. On Preventive Justice ; 15. Punitive Preventive Justice: A Critique ; 16. The Politics of Mass Preventive Justice

Provides a sophisticated analysis of the state's use of coercion for the purpose of preventing harm Addresses core normative questions raised by preventive measures in and on the borders of the criminal process, criminal law, and punishment Cross-disciplinary approach draws together criminal law, philosophy, and criminology to examine the scope, limits, and principles of preventive justice

Andrew Ashworth is Vinerian Professor of English Law in the University of Oxford, a member of the Centre for Criminology and a Fellow of All Souls College. Until 2010 he was chair of the Sentencing Advisory Panel for England and Wales. He is co-directing (with Professor Lucia Zedner) a three-year study of Preventive Justice, generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Lucia Zedner is Professor of Criminal Justice in the Faculty of Law and a member of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. She is currently the General Editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series Clarendon Studies in Criminology. With Andrew Ashworth, Professor Zedner is currently co-directing a three-year study of Preventive Justice generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is also Conjoint Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, where she is a regular visitor. Patrick Tomlin is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Reading. Prior to taking up this post in January 2012, he was a postdoctoral researcher on the Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded Preventive Justice project at the University of Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Provides a sophisticated analysis of the state's use of coercion for the purpose of preventing harm Addresses core normative questions raised by preventive measures in and on the borders of the criminal process, criminal law, and punishment Cross-disciplinary approach draws together criminal law, philosophy, and criminology to examine the scope, limits, and principles of preventive justice