Jordan Anderson

Swansea University | SWAN

In 2020, the High Court of New Zealand handed down the country’s first ever sentence of life imprisonment without parole. This unprecedented sentence was applied to the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch terror attack. Convicted of 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and one charge of engaging in a terrorist attack, the sentencing of the Christchur...

Throughout the Anglophone advanced liberal democracies, punishment is increasingly creeping past the limits of traditional finite sentences and moving beyond the walls of the prison. “Regulatory” mechanisms enforcing limitations on releasees’ use of space beyond the prison walls have increased, and net widening due to technological advancement has...

updated version of Pratt and Cark (2005), penal Populism in New Zealand, to be published in 2021, in Stanley, E et al, The Aotearoa Handbook of Criminology

This chapter uses community notification to examine the ways in which risk control in New Zealand, as in similar societies, drives a distinct strand of penal policy development. Community notification policy and practice has expanded across the advanced liberal democracies, far beyond the initial bounds set out in Megan’s Law in the United States i...

This book examines the impact and implications of the relationship between risk and criminal justice in advanced liberal democracies, in the context of the ‘revolt against uncertainty’ which has underpinned the rise of populist politics across these societies in recent years. It asks what impact the demands for more certainty and security, and the...

This paper discusses and explains a new penal phenomenon in the main Anglophone societies - the rise of the security sanction. Rather than reacting to crime, its purpose is to protect public safety by reducing the risk of future crime. It can be applied to both the most serious offenders and those who have not committed any crime. It can involve ex...