Abstract
The UK’s ‘Foreign National Prisoner crisis’ erupted on 25 April 2006, when it emerged that 1023 foreign offenders (FNPs), who had been recommended for deportation by the courts or the prison service, had been released upon completion of their sentences. The FNP ‘crisis’ inspired a ‘moral panic’ (Cohen 1972), in which a range of emergency measures and new policies were hastily instituted (Kaufman 2013). After the ‘crisis’, ‘foreign criminals’ became increasingly salient in migration debates in the UK. The FNP ‘crisis’ incensed the media and politicians, who framed the issue in terms of dangerous foreign men whose hypermasculinist violence presented a severe and existential threat to the British people.
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