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Article: Risk society and actuarial criminology: Prospects for a critical discourse.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Criminology
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
- Author:
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The individual social scientist tends to become involved in those many trends of modern society that make the individual a part of a functionally rational bureaucracy, and to sink into his specialized slot in such a way as not to be explicitly concerned with the structure of post-modern society ... the role of reason in human affairs tends to become merely a refinement of techniques for administrative and manipulative uses. (Mills 1959: 180)
I have been tasked in this paper with discussing developments in what has increasingly been described as a new `risk society' discourse and its utility for critical criminological inquiry. The pieces in this special ...