Balancing Liberty and Security

KATE MOSS is Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Law, Social Science and Communications at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for Crime Reduction Initiatives and has also published Security and Liberty.

• Foreword; M.Mansfield Acknowledgements  Liberty versus Security Historical and Contemporary Deviations from Essential Civil Liberties  The Context of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998  Article 3 and Torture  Article 5 and Detention without Trial  Article 6 and Extraordinary Rendition  Securing Rights – But Which? References Index

"Balancing Liberty and Security finds an important place in (the still few) works that have expressed concern about the silence of academics on the abuse of State power. This forthright evaluation of the risk society raises an articulate voice over externally or self-imposed silence of the academy on insidious deployment of State power ostensibly for public good. It is an accessible and welcome critical contribution to the discourse on civil rights and the monstrosity that is increasingly becoming the main face of State power even in the West with its claims on liberal democracy, rule of law and human rights. It is a must read for students and researchers of human rights, security studies and criminology and politics." - Hakeen O. Yusuf, The Howard Journal 53(3)