Crime and the Risk Society

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Pat O'Malley
Ashgate, 1998 - Business & Economics - 490 pages
This book contains 23 previously-published articles on actuarial justice, crime and risk, and crime management, many of which adopt post-structural political assumptions. Topics covered include: the theoretical underpinnings of the "risk society," a society organized around, and governed by, concepts of risk; the interplay between crime control and the risk society, with a particular emphasis on law enforcement; techniques of actuarial crime control and risk managerial criminology; and, critiques of actuarial justice.

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Trevor Bennett 1994 Police Strategies and Tactics for Controlling Crime
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The Political
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According to Risk Crime and Delinquency 29 pp 50428
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