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

by Harvey Molotch

Book Overview

How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effective

The inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these regimes of command-and-control...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691163588
• ISBN13: 9780691163581
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"