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This is an important and challenging interpretation of the so-called 'preventive turn' in criminal law. Carvalho argues that, far from being a development that is at odds with the logic and values of criminal law, as much academic commentary suggests, the logic of prevention is actually embedded in core concepts such as individual autonomy and responsibility. These, therefore, cannot be the bulwark against the spread of preventive offences, because, in practice, they have enabled the development of these measures. Against this Carvalho challenges us to rethink concepts such as liberty or autonomy as social concepts and to understand them in ways which do not further embed the preventive logic which lies at the heart of the modern criminal law. Overall this is an important contribution to the critical analysis of criminal law and criminal law theory. Professor Lindsay Farmer, School of Law, University of Glasgow Carvalho's insight that, far from representing a radical and worrying break in the liberal tradition, the criminal law's preventive turn towards inchoate and pre-inchoate offences is in fact paradigmatic of liberalism, makes an important and provocative contribution to current debates on criminal justice. Professor Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics

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Henrique Carvalho is an Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick.

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