Is there a right to security in the criminal law? Professor Peter Ramsay's 2012 book The Insecurity State Vulnerable Autonomy and the Right to Security in the Criminal Law, explained how such a right is apparent when one examines the different instruments employed by the state to guarantee precautionary justice. In this episode of Ratio, Professor Nicola Lacey speaks with Peter to unpack the implications that a right to security presents. What do precautionary laws, i.e., laws that seek to reassure one's aversion from another's risky behaviour towards them, tell us about the nature of criminalisation? Nicola and Peter discuss this and much more.

This episode was produced by Mohid Malik.

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