Dealing with dangerous offenders Flashcards
According to Petrunik what are the features of dangerousness?
It doesn’t refer to the act but the perpetrator.
It usual relates to acts of a sexual nature.
States that dangerousness is a state of being.
How does Pratt think of dangerousness?
You have to consider risk, notions of dangerousness are related to value systems and perspectives. The socio-political climate tends to define dangerousness.
Greig’s position on dangerousness.
States that dangerousness is a product of the understanding of evil.
It attained scientific status through the anthropological movement.
Is someone biologically dangerous?
Foucault and governmentality
He looks at risk in the context of surveillance and regulation. Draws attention to the ways society problematises crime and people.
How do we examine risk in the CJS?
It focuses on the social institutions and cultural context.
What does Prin highlight when thinking about risk?
That much of our concern when thinking about risk comes from the media.
The public need the assumption that the professionals can get it right all the time.
What observation did Soothill make when thinking about crime?
That there is a ten year cycle in which childhood background and occupation have an effect. The media plays on this construct.
What is meant by Actuarial justice?
We view criminality as something that can be statistically analysed and the risks calculated.
