- 208 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
In this penetrating account of the impacts of risk on everyday life, Gabe Mythen provides a theoretically informed overview of the regulation of crime and security in a globalized world. By explicating the relationships between risk and crime, security and justice, the text applies risk to specific incidents and events, scrutinizing social processes and cultural practices, and illumining some of the central social and political issues of the modern age. Extending across a range of domains – including law, the environment, media and politics – Mythen embarks on a conceptual and critical exploration of risk theory. In doing so, his incisive text presents both a critical evaluation of the efficacy of competing perspectives on risk, and an authoritative appraisal of the place of risk within the social sciences.
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Index
191
Wacquant,
L.,
7,
141,
142
Wales,
C.,
22,
37
Walker,
C.,
102
Walker,
L.,
118
Walker,
N.,
94
Walker,
R.,
102
Walklate,
S.,
15,
18,
28,
39,
50,
51,
56,
70,
71,
75,
76,
79,
80,
89,
90,
99,
100,
102,
137
Wall,
D.,
101,
105
Ward,
T.,
94
war
on
terror,
91–2,
95,
106–7
centrality
of
the
terrorist
threat,
92
international
military
incursions,
92
9/11
attacks,
92
radical
Islamist
philosophy,
92
weak
constructionism,
32
weaponry,
evolving
use
of,
98
Weinstein,
N.D.,
24
Welsh,
B.,
58
Weltzer,
H.,
128,
131
White,
R.,
113
Whyte,
D.,
91,
94,
97,
106,
114,
141,
144
Wildavsky,
A.,
20,
40,
41
Wilenius,
M.,
109
Wilkinson,
G.,
140
Wilkinson,
I.,
3,
12,
14,
23,
26,
28,
32,
34,
44,
45,
143
Williams,
B.,
70,
71
Williams,
K.,
73
Willmott,
P.,
65
Willms,
J.,
32
Wilson,
K.,
110,
112
Winchester,
S.,
110
Wolf,
J.,
115
women
at
risk,
142
Wood,
J.,
5
Worcester,
R.,
17,
91
worst
imaginable
accidents
(WIAs),
31
Wright
Mills,
C.,
9,
136,
142,
143
Wynne,
B.,
22,
25,
28,
29
Young,
J.,
59,
67,
76
Young,
W.,
52,
53
Younge,
G.,
127
Zedner,
L.,
5,
51,
54,
56,
71,
73,
101,
102,
139
Zimbabwe,
food
shortage,
141
Zinn,
J.
O.,
3,
15,
18,
28
Žižek,
S.,
132
zombie
categories,
33