Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger

by Harvey Molotch

Book Overview

How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effective

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069115581X
• ISBN13: 9780691155814
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"