Abstract
Policing the Risk Society remains a classic of criminological theory and has been of considerable importance to both risk and policing studies. Despite its influence, there has been no systematic research program established that has followed up its leads. Even its authors immediately moved to different fields and seemingly abandoned the ‘risk society thesis’ that was its theoretical core. In practice, most of its characterisation of contemporary police in the risk society has proven problematic: police have not become creatures of the insurance industry, nor have risk-based routines displaced traditional law and order policing to any great extent. Rather, the influence of risk -- primarily in the massive field of traffic detection and enforcement regarding traffic offending -- has been to shift much policing away from police per se, and on to electronic and computerised surveillance technologies.
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