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Crime, Institutional Knowledge and Power
Richard Ericson was one of the most important and widely-cited criminologists of his generation and this volume, edited by three of his colleagues, brings together a selection of his influential research essays and articles. The topics covered include juvenile justice, policing, the courts, the media, the insurance industry and national security. Overall, the collection enables scholars and researchers to develop a greater understanding of the dynamics of crime, risk and security.
Policing the Risk Society
The focus of this book is the policing of modern society and the risks involved. It explores various issues and factors effecting policing communities, particularly communication and police organization.
Risk and Morality
Collectively, the contributors explain why risk is such a key aspect of Western culture, and demonstrate that new regimes for risk management are transforming social integration, value-based reasoning and morality.
Reproducing Order
Professor Ericson and his colleagues followed the work of patrol officers in a large Canadian regional police force. From their direct observations comes a wealth of information, quantitatively assembled and qualitatively discussed, with insights into the nature of policing. This book reveals that the police are not mere 'referees' of our legal lives, blowing the whistle on our infractions. They are censors of certain types of possibly wrong actions. They are selective in their invocation of criminal law and use the law artfully to restore settings to orderliness. Ericson emphasizes the routine manner in which the patrol officer intervenes and gains compliance fron the citizenry. He demonstr...
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. The book explains why selected issues of national security, social security, corporate security and domestic security are at the top of the political agenda.
Representing Order
A presentation of the results of scientific investigations in the vast areas of the Anyemaqen Mountains and Qilian Mountains obtained through joint efforts of the Chinese and W. German scientists in 1981 which secured materials and data in the fields of glaciology, cryopedology, climatology, geomorphology, geology, surveying, remote sensing. No index. An analysis of public conversations about crime, law, and justice, and how they are communicated in the news media. In terms of methodology, the authors employ content analysis to examine news products in the aggregate; in terms of theory, they explore how and why public conversations are dominated by talk of crime, law, and justice. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Uncertain Business
We live in an age of increasing doubt about whether our institutions and technologies can provide security against risks, many of which they themselves have created. Uncertain Business is an unprecedented inquiry into insurance industry practices and what they tell us about risks and uncertainties in contemporary society. The core of the book is ethnographic studies in distinct fields of insurance: premature death, disability, earthquake, and terrorism. These studies reveal that uncertainty pervades different fields of insurance, the very industry that is charged with transforming uncertainty into manageable risk. Scientific data on risk are variously absent, inadequate, controversial, contr...
The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility
Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, surveillance has been put forward as the essential tool for the ?war on terror,? with new technologies and policies offering police and military operatives enhanced opportunities for monitoring suspect populations. The last few years have also seen the public?s consumer tastes become increasingly codified, with ?data mines? of demographic information such as postal codes and purchasing records. Additionally, surveillance has become a form of entertainment, with ?reality? shows becoming the dominant genre on network and cable television. In The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility, editors Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson bring tog...
Insurance as Governance
Analyzes how the tactics and strategies of insurers help govern our "risk society". [back cover].
Making Things Stick
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. With Mexico’s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things—cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies—that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat.
