Considering the question of how levels of security allow state power to be increased to the point at which it infringes essential civil liberties, this book explores the creeping power of the executive and the unfeasibility of widespread use of the Human Rights Act as a bulwark against the oppressive use of state power.

Preface by Ken Pease Series Preface by Martin Gill The Retreat from Liberty Constitutional Origins of Erosion The Culture of Control Detention Without Trial Football Banning Orders Secure Borders Implications for Crime Reduction and Criminology References

KATE MOSS is Reader in Law in the School of Legal Studies, Wolverhampton University, UK. She has conducted extensive research and consultancy work for a wide range of institutions including the police, the Home Office and Centrex. She is co-editor of Crime Reduction and the Law and author of Medium Secure, Psychiatric Provision in the Private Sector.