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Article: Policing the risk society.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Richard Ericson and Kevin Haggerty, Policing the Risk Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, 487 pp.
Policing the Risk Society is an ambitious and important analysis of the role of public policing in the governance of late modern "risk" based societies. Framed by Foucauldian analysis and Ulrich Beck's risk theorizing, authors Richard Ericson and Kevin Haggerty provide a rich research based portrait of modern policing as a public institution driven by risk related surveillance, information gathering and communication functions. In addition to radically redefining the essential nature of contemporary policing and modern governance, Policing the Risk ...