Ebook: The Security Society: History, Patriarchy, Protection
Author: Francis Dodsworth
- Genre: Other Social Sciences
- Tags: Social Science Criminology Security Management Security Society
- Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Language: English
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This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the ‘security society’ which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the social sciences more broadly. ‘Security’ has been argued to constitute a new mode of social ordering, displacing the ‘disciplinary society’ that Foucault saw as characteristic of the liberal era. He saw a ‘control society’ (or ‘risk society’) characteristic of Neo-Liberalism, in which the deviant behaviour of particular individuals, as less important than general attempts to offset risk and reduce harm. Dodsworth argues that much of this literature is extraordinarily present-ist in orientation, denying the long history of attempts to mitigate risk, prevent harm and manage security which have always been a part of the government of order.
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