Protecting the Public?: Executive Discretion and the Release by Tessa Boyd-Caine

The separation of powers and autonomous, judicial decision-making are normally accredited as hallmarks of the rule of thumb of legislations in democratic societies. but the workout of govt discretion continues to be an enormous point of felony justice in lots of parts. Protecting the Public? explores the strain among the rights of people detained less than legal and psychological healthiness legislations and the accountability for public security within the little-known global of government discretion over mentally disordered offenders. it's in response to large and specified empirical study performed on the united kingdom domestic workplace, with felony and scientific practitioners, with civil society companies and through connection with comparative jurisdictions. critical questions thought of comprise: govt, judicial and tribunal decision-making; psychological well-being and felony legislations reform relating to critical or high-risk offenders; the effect of human rights legislations on coverage and perform; and the function of civil society, quite sufferer curiosity teams, in public coverage. via its research of choices to unlock 'high-risk' offenders, this booklet is going to the center of the general public security agenda – interpreting how 'the public' is developed and what safety is equipped by means of the workout of government discretion. This publication may be of curiosity to educational and different researchers, scholars, policy-makers, legislations reformers, commentators and somebody drawn to the sphere of felony justice, psychological well-being legislation and public policy.