Abstract
AbstractThis article examines the problematisation of crime, crime prevention and security in contemporary security policy programmes using three Finnish internal security programmes and theory-based content analysis. The study is based on the theory (the perspective) of an analytics of government. The findings highlight the central meaning of social exclusion and community as security practices wherein social exclusion is seen as a threat to security and a risk for crime. Indeed, community-based crime prevention plays a central role in the programmes along with the worry about serious crimes and the high level of homicides. A fluid governing policy without crime and accidents is the implicit goal of these programmes.
Highlights
Future generations will look back on our era as a time when one system of policing ended and another took its place (Bayley & Shearing, 1996, p. 585).Security can be interpreted in multiple ways
I am doing my doctoral studies in the Social Sciences at the University of Tampere
I have been interested in the central meaning of security and the present large weight placed on it in the modern political climate in Finland and other Western countries
Summary
Future generations will look back on our era as a time when one system of policing ended and another took its place (Bayley & Shearing, 1996, p. 585).Security can be interpreted in multiple ways. Each of these programmes notes a different kind of criminality as being the most significant threat to internal security. This paper asks what kind of things, phenomena or people are seen to threaten (internal) security, especially concerning crime and criminology.
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