Against security [electronic resource] : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch.

9781400844869 (electronic book)
069115581X
9780691155814

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c2012.

English

1 online resource (xv, 260 p.) : ill., maps.

HV6432 .M656 2012eb

Remember when an unattended package was just that, an unattended package? Remember when the airport was a place that evoked magical possibilities, not the anxiety of a full-body scan? In the post-9/11 world, we have become focused on heightened security measures, but do you feel safer? Are you safer? Against Security explains how our anxieties about public safety have translated into command-and-control procedures that annoy, intimidate, and are often counterproductive.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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