Crime in an Insecure WorldISBN: 978-0-7456-3829-4
Paperback
188 pages
January 2007, Polity
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- This timely book investigates the alarming trend spreading
across Western countries of treating every imaginable source of
harm as a crime.
- This groundbreaking book contributes to the most critical and
contested debates in 21st century politics.
- The author is an extremely well known and respected academic
who has published a number of very well respected books on Risk
Society
- Comprehensive and clear analysis of how and why the law is
being reformed in western society in the face of perceived
risks.
- Brimming with insights about a dystopian world obsessed with crime, risk and uncertainty and therefore possessed by extreme security measures.