Crime in an Insecure World
Crime in an Insecure World investigates the alarming trend across Western societies of treating every imaginable source of harm as a crime. It locates this trend in the 21st century obsession with insecurity fostered by neo-liberal governments. It explains why selected issues of national security (threats of terrorism), social security (benefit system integrity), corporate security (liabilities for harm) and domestic security (anti-social behaviour) are at the top of the political agenda. It documents how this politics of insecurity leads to enormous expenditures on risk assessment and management that ironically reveal the limits of risk-base…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7456-3829-4
- EAN: 9780745638294
- Produktnummer: 2471462
- Verlag: Polity Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.4 cm 327 g
- Gewicht: 327
Über den Autor
Richard Ericson is Professor and Director of Criminology at the University of Toronto.
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