Law, Insecurity and Risk Control: Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt

Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Law, Insecurity and Risk Control -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Risk and the New Paradigm of Criminal Law and Punishment -- The Duality of Risk -- Governing Through Risk -- The Populist Revolt -- What Follows -- References -- 2: "Never Again" -- The Reduction of Risk -- Welfare and the Reorganisation of Everyday Life -- Hunting Sex Fiends Prohibited -- The Importance of Conformity -- References -- 3: Set Risk Free -- The Emergence of a Neo-liberal Political Agenda -- The Collapse of Faith in Welfarism -- A Neo-liberal Programme of Government -- Risk Redistributed -- References -- 4: The Celebration of Risk -- Risk as a Way of Life -- Lifestyle and Its Pleasures -- From the Social City to the Pleasure City -- Shopping and Tourism -- Housing -- Parks and Recreation Areas -- References -- 5: Fear and Anxiety in the Risk Society -- Ruined by Risk -- "Who can I turn to?" -- The "Minaturization of Community Life" -- Alarm at the Presence of Street People -- Strangers Might Be Monsters -- (i) Fear of Sexual Attack -- (ii) Fear of Terrorist Attack -- The Architecture of Security -- From the Social City to the Insecure City -- References -- 6: The Rise of the Security Sanction -- Security Through Immobilisation -- Immobilisation in Public Space -- (i) Immobilising street people to protect quality of life in public space -- (ii) Immobilising those who put the human body at risk of sexual assault -- (iii) Immobilising potential terrorists -- Immobilisation by Extending the Grasp of Imprisonment -- References -- 7: Issues of Legitimacy: Legal and Political -- Legal Legitimacy -- Denial and Depenalisation -- The Security Sanction Remains Within the Legal Framework of Democratic Societies -- Only the Worst of the Worst Are Immobilised.