Risk, Power and the State - After Foucault

Informationen zum Autor Magnus Hörnqvist is based at the Department of Criminology at the Stockholm University. Klappentext This title addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations! through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk. Zusammenfassung Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations, through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Activation Quaranteed: Individualizing the Pressure to Perform. Subjected Freedom: The Productivity of Power. Institutional Order: Guiding Repression through Risk. Generalized Control: Negotiating Contradictory Expectations through Risk. Conclusions

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• Authors: Magnus (Stockholm University Hornqvist, Magnus (Stockholm University Stockholm Hornqvist, Magnus (Stockholm University) Hornqvist, Magnus Hörnqvist
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2011
• EAN: 9780415697712
• ISBN: 978-0-415-69771-2
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Social Theory, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, LAW / Government / General, LAW / Judicial Power, Political science & theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, Legal aspects of criminology, Political science and theory, Social Law, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminology: legal aspects, Social law and Medical law