The Securitization of Society: Crime, Risk, and Social Order - Alternative Criminology (Paperback)

Marc Schuilenburg (author), David Garland (author of introduction), George Hall (translator)

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Paperback 368 Pages / Published: 07/11/2017

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Synopsis

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 perspective for examining the dynamic nature of security and its governance. Rooted in the works of the French philosophers Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Gabriel Tarde, this book explores the ongoing structural and cultural changes that have impacted security in Western society from the 19th century to the present. By analyzing the new hybrid of public-private security, this volume provides deep insight into the processes of securitization and modern risk management for the police and judicial authorities as well as other emerging parties. Schuilenburg draws upon four case studies of increased securitization in Europe - monitoring marijuana cultivation, urban intervention teams, road transport crime, and the collective shop ban - in order to raise important questions about citizenship, social order, and the law within this expanding new paradigm. An innovative, interdisciplinary approach to criminological theory that incorporates philosophy, sociology, and political science, The Securitization of Society reveals how security is understood and enacted in urban environments today.

Publisher: New York University Press
ISBN: 9781479876594
Number of pages: 368
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

"A major contribution to the growing literature on `hybrid' security . . . anchor[s] empirical research in some substantive theoretical footing."-Human Rights Review
"Schuilenburg has brilliantly charted the slipsthat occur twixt the cup of security theory and the lip of day-to-day life.Combining insights from classic and contemporary social theory with the fruitsof ethnographic exploration, he shows that things are never as simple as theyseem. Legal scholars long ago realized the need to study both law in theory andlaw in action. Schuilenburg has laid the foundations for understandingsecuritization in action."-Michael Tonry,author of Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma
"Marc Schuilenburg's book, The Securitization of Society, represents an important intervention in recent academic attempts to pin down the slippery phenomenon of security...[The book reflects] Schuilenburg's breathtaking command of a wide variety of conceptual resources, his own considerable, theoretical creativity, as well as the account of his well-crafted empirical work. It is a great pleasure to read a brilliant, philosophically expert mind at work."-Theoretical Sociology
"TheSecuritization of Society is a thoughtful and provocative work that announcesMarc Schuilenburg as an insightful, and much-needed, new theoretical voice inthe study of security. If you want to make sense of the myriad systems ofsurveillance and hybrid public-private security assemblages that dominatetoday's urban landscape, this is a must-read."-Keith Hayward,co-author of Cultural Criminology: An Invitation
"TheSecuritization of Society delivers a series of insights-about the dynamicand unstable elements of the security world, about the difficulties ofinter-agency action, about the fragility of even the most powerful securityassemblages-that, having now been stated, will quickly become our new commonsense."-David Garland,from the Introduction