Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: The Context of Public Protection Introduction 1. Dangers by Being Despised Grow Great 2. Theorising Dangerousness 3. The Politics of Public Protection Part 2: Assessing and Managing Risk Introduction 4. Forensic Risk Assessment: Public Protection Versus Offender Rights 5. Discretion and Decision-making in Public Protection 6. An Epistemological Chasm? Actuarial Risk assessment through OASys 7. Public Protection: Perpetrators, Predictions, Prevention and Performance Part 3: Doing the Job Introduction 8. Public Protection and the Parole Board 9. Community Protection and Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements 10. Public Protection Work: Achieving the Possible 11. Sex Offender Management in the Community: Who are the Victims? Part 4: A Comparative Perspective Introduction 12. Public Protection and Community Safety in the Netherlands 13. Public Protection in Scotland: A Way Forward? 14. Sex Offender Notification: Policy Imperatives, Effectiveness and Consequences in the USA 15. The Preventive State: When is Prevention of Harm Harmful? Part 5: Contemporary Issues in Public Protection 16. Electronic Monitoring, Satellite Tracking and Public Protection 17. Hate Crime Offending and Victimisation: Some Considerations for Public Protection 18. Punitive Policies on Sexual Offending: From Public Shaming to Public Protection 19. Policing, Public Protection and Minority Groups 20. Young Offenders and Public Protection 21. Public Protectionism and 'Sarah's Law': Exerting Pressure Through Single Issue Campaigns