The social costs of dangerousness: prison and the dangerous classes

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'Is the state becoming dangerous?' is one of the questions that Jamie Bennett asks in this monograph. Jamie Bennett, who is editor of the Prison Service Journal and has worked as a prison manager for over a decade, argues that the concept of dangerousness 'has become widely used' but 'is poorly understood' and is contributing to a 'moral impoverishment of society'.

Published as part of our Whose Justice? project, this monograph is sure to stimulate debate.