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Crime and Security
This volume brings together a wide range of contributions from leading scholars in the field and includes international and comparative perspectives on the challenges posed by the rise of the 'security society'.
Author(s) | Edited by Benjamin Goold. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 530 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 28 Oct 2006 |
Availability | Available |
This volume brings together a wide range of contributions from leading scholars in the field and includes international and comparative perspectives on the challenges posed by the rise of the 'security society'.
Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Theorizing Security: The concept of security, Lawrence Freedman; Against security: thinking normatively about private security, Ian Loader . Part II Security and Governance: Punishment and the changing face o
Benjamin Goold is a University Lecturer in Law and a Fellow and Tutor at Somerville College, University of Oxford. His major research interests are in the use of surveillance technology by the police, and the relationship between individual privacy rights