Crime and the risk society

Abstract

Section 1 Crime in the risk society: The emergence of a risk society - insurance, law, and the state, Simon Jonathan From Panopticon to Disneyland - the development of discipline, Clifford Shearing, Philip Stenning Managing crime risks - toward an insurance based model of social control, Nancy Reichman Risk, power and crime prevention, Pat O'Malley. Section 2 Policing the risk society: The division of expert knowledge in policing and security, Richard Ericson Crime prevention and insurance, R.A. Litton Legal networks and domestic security, Pat O'Malley Police strategies and tactics for controlling crime and disorder in England and Wales, Trevor Bennett Moral technology - the political agenda of random drug testing, Pat O'Malley, Stephen Mugford. Section 3 Actuarial justice: The new penology - notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications, Malcolm Feeley, Jonathan Simon Dangerousness and criminal justice, Jean Floud Selective incapacitation - sentencing according to risk, John Blackmore, Jane Welsh Dangerousness, risk and technologies of power, John Pratt When have we punished enough? Edwin Zedlewski Some conceptual issues in incapacitating offenders, Todd Clear, Donald Barry Tagging reviewed, J. Robert Lilly Actuarial justice - The emerging new Criminal Law, Malcolm Feely, Jonathan Simon. Section 4 The politics of crime risk management: Warnings to women police advice and women's safety in Britain, Elizabeth Stanko Risk and criminal victimization - A modernist dilemma? Sandra Walklate Who gets probation or parole - case study versus actuarial decision making, Daniel Glaser Social constructions of bleach in combating aids among injecting drug users, Robert Broadhead Social change and the control of psychotropic drugs - risk management, harm reduction and 'postmodernity', Stephen Mugford.