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Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against UncertaintyDangerous Neighbors: Risk Control, Community Notification and Sex Offender Release

Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty: Dangerous Neighbors: Risk Control,... [This chapter uses community notification to examine the ways in which risk control in New Zealand, as in similar societies, drives a distinct strand of penal policy development. Community notification policy and practice has expanded across the advanced liberal democracies, far beyond the initial bounds set out in Megan’s Law in the United States in 1994. Using the case of New Zealand, where notification is not legislated, the chapter explores the way that communities are often informed about the presence of sex offenders in ad hoc and unpredictable ways, triggering a range of fear-based responses. Drawing from interviews with a range of leaders from communities who experienced de facto notification, the chapter considers whether the nuances of the community reaction, in particular the depth of insecurity and range of proposed ‘sensible’ solutions, are typical of lived experiences of risk control and regulation in neoliberal societies, and the way that they are becoming increasingly intolerant of risky individuals: those who threaten irreparable harm to vulnerable people.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against UncertaintyDangerous Neighbors: Risk Control, Community Notification and Sex Offender Release

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society Book Series
Editors: Pratt, John; Anderson, Jordan
Anderson, Jordan
Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty — Mar 18, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-37947-6
Pages
93 –113
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-37948-3_5
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Abstract

[This chapter uses community notification to examine the ways in which risk control in New Zealand, as in similar societies, drives a distinct strand of penal policy development. Community notification policy and practice has expanded across the advanced liberal democracies, far beyond the initial bounds set out in Megan’s Law in the United States in 1994. Using the case of New Zealand, where notification is not legislated, the chapter explores the way that communities are often informed about the presence of sex offenders in ad hoc and unpredictable ways, triggering a range of fear-based responses. Drawing from interviews with a range of leaders from communities who experienced de facto notification, the chapter considers whether the nuances of the community reaction, in particular the depth of insecurity and range of proposed ‘sensible’ solutions, are typical of lived experiences of risk control and regulation in neoliberal societies, and the way that they are becoming increasingly intolerant of risky individuals: those who threaten irreparable harm to vulnerable people.]

Published: Mar 18, 2020

Keywords: Community notification; Sex offender release; Post-sentence regulation; New Zealand; Megan’s Law; Zygmunt Bauman; Liquid modernity; Sex offender; Community

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