ABSTRACT
A defining feature of contemporary criminal justice discourse has been the prominence of issues of risk. Risk as represented in criminal justice worlds has taken on a variety of guises. Risk ‘talk’ reveals a preoccupation both with those seen to pose a risk and those considered to be at risk. Linked to such preoccupations is a growing absorption with the legal, medical and psychological means by which we seek to manage risk. This text seeks to focus on all three of those elements and also consider the inter-relationships between them.
