Risk and Responsibility

Giddens, Anthony

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“…But, as noted at the outset, there is a second explanation that needs also to be considered: namely, lawyers in the UK haven't been greatly interested in the concept of risk, nor have they made much reference to the extensive risk literature (Steele 2004;Giddens 1999). 8 We suspect that, for non-lawyers, these omissions will seem surprising given that law is often about using expert knowledges and managing risk: consider, for example, the use of 'risk of harm' tests in the child protection and mental health contexts, and the use of 'risk of re-offending' criteria in sentencing, parole and civil preventative order contexts.…”

Section: Part Two: (Human Rights) Lawyers and Riskmentioning

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Risk and Human Rights in UK Prison Governance

Murphy¹,

Whitty²

2007

British Journal of Criminology

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A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. everywhere that risk appears, it is assembled into complex configurations with other technologies… '(2004: 26-7). This article responds to that appeal by focusing specifically on prison governance in the UK. It aims, first, to draw attention to a range of intersections between risk and human rights, and argues that these intersections require analysis. Secondly, it suggests some key features of a 'risk and rights' analysis by drawing upon insights from within criminology, human rights law and regulation scholarship. In order to explore these issues, we have divided the article into three parts. The first part speculates on British criminology's (non) engagement with human rights and queries why the growth in prisoner rights litigation has not registered in criminology scholarship on prisons. 2 Then, in the second part, we highlight the widespread lack of engagement with risk amongst (human rights) lawyers, both at the theoretical level and in terms of the uses of risk assessment and management in legal practice. In the final part of the article, we argue that criminologists and lawyers should be examining the co-existence of risk and rights discourses in UK prison governance and we suggest some key features of a 'risk and rights' stream of academic enquiry. Part One: Criminologists and Human Rights

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Section: Part Two: (Human Rights) Lawyers and Riskmentioning

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Risk and Human Rights in UK Prison Governance

Murphy¹,

Whitty²

2007

British Journal of Criminology

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“…Some have even argued that modern technology has been accompanied by an increase in the overall level of risk, giving rise to 'the risk society' (Beck, 1992). Giddens (1999) in particular discusses the increase in the level and pervasiveness of 'manufactured risk' -i.e. 'risk created by the very progression of human development, especially by the progression of science and technology' (ibid., p.4) with their unknown and often unpredictable consequences.…”

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Twenty Challenges for Innovation Studies

Martin

2015

SSRN Journal

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With the field of innovation studies now half a century old, the occasion has been marked by several studies looking back to identify the main advances made over its lifetime. Starting from a list of 20 advances over the field's history, this discussion paper sets out 20 challenges for coming decades. At a conference in 1900, David Hilbert put forward a list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems that were to have a profound influence on the work of mathematicians during the 20 th Century. The intention here is to prompt a debate within the innovation studies community on what are, or should be, the key challenges for us to take up, and more generally on what sort of field we aspire to be. It is argued that the empirical focus of our studies has not kept pace with the fast changing world and economy, especially the shift from manufacturing to services and the growing need for sustainability. Moreover, the very way we conceptualise, define, operationalise and analyse 'innovation' seems rooted in the past, leaving us less able to grapple with other less visible or 'dark' forms of innovation.Keywords: innovation studies; science policy; challenges; achievements; dark innovation Acknowledgements A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the Lundvall symposium held at Aalborg University in February 2012. A short version (based on 15 challenges rather than 20) is being published, along with other contributions to that event, in a book on The Future of Innovation Studies (Fagerberg et al., 2013).

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“…Although a great deal of research into risk and uncertainty has been mobilised in the social sciences (for example, Beck, 1992;Callon et al, 2009;Douglas, 1992;Douglas and Wildavsky, 1982;Giddens, 1999;Luhman, 1993;Taylor-Gooby and Zinn, 2006), arguably the crossover of insights to the parallel community in the natural and physical sciences is still wanting. Technocratic models of scientific knowledge production, risk Society (1992) and World Risk Society (1999), argued that, for modern social and political subjects, the risks that arise from scientific and industrial modernity constitute a new means of social change.…”

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“…As a result, risk becomes a function of greater individualism, and indeed, risk is the product of social and technical modernity itself. Risks, defined as the products of modern industrial societies and their future-oriented perspectives and capabilities, are for Beck and others (such as Giddens, 1999) key features of how modern societies understand and organise themselves. The risks that concern us today, that in Beck's words, ask us to move 'beyond a modernity of classical industrial design ' (1992: 10) are what Beck calls 'manufactured uncertainties' (Beck, 1999: 19-48).…”

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“…People living in what have since come to be termed 'risk societies' find their options are re-configured within complex, often market-led, structures and forces, and, as a result, they are increasingly left to manage their own safety and risk exposures. However, at the same time, the discourse of science -which is seen to objectively describe the so-called 'natural' conditions of hazard, risk and its avoidance -has become the key means by which risk is thinkable, and as such sets the context for risk and its various politics (Giddens, 1999). The critical social sciences, then, have focused largely on the politicisation of risk as a function of living in scientifically and economically mediated risk societies.…”

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confidence: 99%

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