The Future(s) of Security Studies

Crawford, Adam; Hutchinson, Steven

doi:10.1093/bjc/azw070

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“…However, there remains the problem that the effect of taking preventive measures serves to prioritize prevention over other values and goals and this may be to securitize criminal justice more generally (Crawford & Hutchinson 2016, Ogg 2015, Zedner 2016. Concern about such trends is further provoked by new security threats, such as the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq; the recruitment and, increasingly, the return of foreign terrorist fighters; and, not least, the recurrence of terrorist attacks that provoke great public fear and political apprehension, raise national threat levels, and increase pressure on the Preventive State to do yet more to ensure security, even at the countervailing cost of imperiling rights.…”

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The Rise and Restraint of the Preventive State

Zedner

Ashworth

2019

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

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Security has always been a core function of the modern state. Yet the rise of the Preventive State captures an intensification of that role as threats to security and demands for public protection increase, prompting states to prioritize new practices of preventive criminalization, policing, and punishment. The rise of the Preventive State may promise greater security, but the costs of ever more coercive preventive laws and measures are burdensome and pose a threat to civil liberties. This review considers the drivers, multiple manifestations, and direct and collateral consequences of preventive endeavors that assess and manage risk, target hazards, and restrain or detain those deemed dangerous. It also explores their ramifications for criminology and criminal justice. It concludes by considering the potential of criminology to join cross-disciplinary efforts to articulate a new jurisprudence of security and to elaborate principles of preventive justice with which to restrain the excesses of the Preventive State. 429

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Section: Conclusion: Beyond the Preventive State?mentioning

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The Rise and Restraint of the Preventive State

Zedner

Ashworth

2019

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

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“…It is now common to look at policing as broader than what the police do (Bowling and Sheptycki, 2015; Crawford and Hutchinson, 2016; Haggerty and Ericson, 2000; Wood and Shearing, 2007) and to understand issues of crime as related to other forms of external threats under the wider umbrella of security. We see technologies as more than simple policing tools; we view the process of technology development as an important process in the development of policing logics emergent in the interactions of scientists, end-user border guards, bordering practices and material agencies.…”

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“…It is based on a social science study of an EU-funded technology research project in which scientists and laboratories across Europe engaged with end-user border guards to develop a handheld device to detect CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive) 1 smuggling at EU borders. The article contributes to the growing engagement with borders and risk across the fields of criminology and security studies (Aradau and Van Munster, 2009; Bigo, 2016; Crawford and Hutchinson, 2016; Mythen and Walklate, 2016b). It expands knowledge of the governance of security (Wood and Shearing, 2007) by highlighting the role played by research groups and laboratories in shaping emerging modalities of transnational policing in the context of international terrorism.…”

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When risks meet: The dance of experience, professional expertise and science in border security technology development

Degenhardt

Bourne

2018

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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As policing and threats become increasingly transnational and plural, practices of managing risk increasingly use technologies that promise certainty. Drawing on a study of the creation of a new border detection device, and ideas from Science and Technology Studies, we argue that devices deployed as objective tools for risk assessment and management in the policing of borders, and the laboratories that develop them, are not simply linear applications of scientific knowledge to control risk but rather are crucial sites in which multiple and contending conceptions and practices of risk converge. Following the interactions of scientists, border guards, policing agents and the EU shows how an official discourse of risk, a scientific conception and experiential working knowledge of risk all ‘danced’ together in the development of a portable detection device. In the process experiential/contextual and professional knowledge of risk were often privileged over rationalistic and statistically based risk assessment.

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“…Another salient example is Sampson et al’s theory of ‘collective efficacy’ ( 1997 ) as a means of improving community participation and of informally monitoring disturbing behaviour within a neighbourhood. Nevertheless, criminologists are so immersed in a political and legal discourse about security, with crime and crime control as their focal points, that they often fail to capitalize on wider multidisciplinary scientific knowledge about the volatile meanings of security and security governance ( Crawford and Hutchinson, 2016b ). Why is this so?…”

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Street Pastors: On security, care and faith in the British night-time economy

Steden

2017

European Journal of Criminology

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This paper presents a study of Street Pastors in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. Street Pastors are Christian volunteers who look after vulnerable people in the night-time economy. In this manner, they provide securitas through empathy and care. The motives of Street Pastors for engaging with partygoers are multi-layered, but their personal faith appears to be a key explanation. A certain kind of orthodox certitudo – of being safe in, and saved by, a higher power – gives the pastors their strength to go out on the street, face the unknown and feel compassion for their fellow citizens. As such, both ‘securitas’ and ‘certitudo’ highlight positive (that is, constitutive) connotations of safety and security not commonly heard in the criminological literature.

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The Future(s) of Security Studies

Cited by 19 publications

References 45 publications

The Rise and Restraint of the Preventive State

The Rise and Restraint of the Preventive State

When risks meet: The dance of experience, professional expertise and science in border security technology development

Street Pastors: On security, care and faith in the British night-time economy

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