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l'Information Psychiatrique. Volume 84, Number 6, 527-31, Juin-Juillet 2008, Biopolitique

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Author(s) : Denis Leguay

Summary : Dati Law: a lesser evil?The recent vote on French Justice Minister Rachida Dati’s law on preventive detention caused an outrage in our country with jurists and psychiatrists alike speaking up forcibly against it. Does this law represent a major change of direction in the history of French law? Have we amended penal philosophy? Or should we agree that, if we consider reoffending to be intolerable, particularly if public opinion is convinced that we could have avoided it, the provisions of this text represent a lesser evil?

Keywords : prevention, predictability, reoffending, perversion, barbarism