The security society : history, patriarchy, protection / Francis Dodsworth.
2019
HV7419 .D63 2019
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Title
The security society : history, patriarchy, protection / Francis Dodsworth.
Author
Dodsworth, Francis, author.
ISBN
9781137433831 (electronic book)
1137433833 (electronic book)
9781137433824
1137433825
1137433833 (electronic book)
9781137433824
1137433825
Published
London, United Kingdom : Palgave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
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HV7419 .D63 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.601
Summary
This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the 'security society' which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the social sciences more broadly. 'Security' has been argued to constitute a new mode of social ordering, displacing the 'disciplinary society' that Foucault saw as characteristic of the liberal era. He saw a 'control society' (or 'risk society') characteristic of Neo-Liberalism, in which the deviant behaviour of particular individuals, as less important than general attempts to offset risk and reduce harm. Dodsworth argues that much of this literature is extraordinarily present-ist in orientation, denying the long history of attempts to mitigate risk, prevent harm and manage security which have always been a part of the government of order. This book develops a 'critical history' of security: a thematic analysis of debates about security and aspects of the security society which puts contemporary arguments and practices in dialogue with the texts and practices of the past. In doing so the book develops a cultural analysis of the meanings of security and the way these meanings have been articulated in particular practical contexts in order to understand how the promise of security has so effectively captured the imagination and channeled the effective engagement of people throughout the modern period.
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Crime prevention and security management.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Masterless men : patriarchy challenged, c. 1570-1670
Patricians and the rule of law, c. 1670-1740
Fratriarchy and the police idea, c. 1740-1800
Institutionalising fratriarchy, c. 1800-1900
Protection beyond patriarchy, c. 1900-2000
Conclusion : genealogies of security.
Masterless men : patriarchy challenged, c. 1570-1670
Patricians and the rule of law, c. 1670-1740
Fratriarchy and the police idea, c. 1740-1800
Institutionalising fratriarchy, c. 1800-1900
Protection beyond patriarchy, c. 1900-2000
Conclusion : genealogies of security.