Pervasive Prevention: A Feminist Reading of the Rise of the Security Society - Hardcover
by Tamar Pitch
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tamar PitchSeries:Advances in CriminologyTheme:Interdisciplinary Studies/Women's StudiesPublish date:5/28/2010Pages:158
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780754675648ISBN-10:0754675645UPC:9780754675648Book Category:Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Criminal Law, Criminology, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.404Product ID:SCHP4JC7K5
The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society. This book shows the connections and differences between these explanations, whilst providing a gender reading of the ways in which social control manifests itself through precautionary measures.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780754675648ISBN-10:0754675645UPC:9780754675648Book Category:Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Criminal Law, Criminology, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.404Product ID:SCHP4JC7K5
Tamar Pitch is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Perugia. She is co-editior of the journal `Studi Sulla Questione Criminale'. Her recent publications include: `The Gender of Security: Women and Men in the City; and Fundamental Rights: cultural diversity, social inequality, sexual difference'.
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