The Securitization of Society: Crime, Risk, and Social Order

by Marc Schuilenburg

Book Overview

Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security, effectively changing its delivery, and overall role.

In The Securitization of Society, Marc Schuilenburg establishes a new critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479876593
• ISBN13: 9781479876594
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"