Security: Welfare, Crime and Society by Allan Cochrane

Security: Welfare, Crime and Society by Allan Cochrane

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Focuses on the ways in which security as an idea, an ideal and a practice can shed light on the intersections and entanglements between welfare and crime, and the ambiguities, tensions and contradictions that arise from them. This book explores some of the consequences and implications of policies and practices aimed at creating security.

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Security: Welfare, Crime and Society by Allan Cochrane

Focuses on the ways in which security as an idea, an ideal and a practice can shed light on the intersections and entanglements between welfare and crime, and the ambiguities, tensions and contradictions that arise from them. This book explores some of the consequences and implications of policies and practices aimed at creating security.
Allan Cochrane is Professor of Urban Studies at The Open University.

Deborah Talbot is Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University.

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ISBN 13 9780335229321
ISBN 10 0335229328
Title Security: Welfare, Crime and Society
Author Allan Cochrane
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Open University Press
Year published 2008-11-16
Number of pages 208
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.