Unequal Security - Welfare, Crime and Social Inequality

Bringing together disciplines such as political science, criminology, sociology, and anthropology and combining quantitative and qualitative studies from a wide range of countries, this collection presents a new framework for exploring the two key social challenges of our times - insecurity and inequality - together.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Unequal Security: Why It Matters and How to Study It 2. Mapping unequal security across rich OECD countries 3. Diverging employment trajectories: occupational differences in unemployment risk and fear of crime 4. The prison security fallacy: How the everyday use of force produces unequal security 5. Insecure in High Security - Health precarity among Women in Norwegian Prisons 6. Framing, Inequality, and the Politics of Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic 7. Economic Informality and Security Policy Preferences in Mexico and Latin America 8. The two faces of liberalism. Liberal parties and penal-welfare turns in Britain and Germany, 1906 to 2016 9. Economic Insecurity, Welfare Retrenchment and Heroin Use between the 1970s and 2000: a multi-cohort analysis 10. Conclusion

About the author

Peter Starke is a political scientist and a professor at the University of Southern Denmark. Based at the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies (DaWS), he specializes in comparative public policy research and political economy.
Laust Lund Elbek holds a PhD in social anthropology (Aarhus University 2020). His work broadly concerns the ways in which the state makes itself present in politically, economically, and/or geographically marginal places.
Georg Wenzelburger is a political scientist and holds the Chair of Comparative European Politics at Saarland University. His research is centred on the comparative study of public policies with a focus on Western Europe.

Summary

Bringing together disciplines such as political science, criminology, sociology, and anthropology and combining quantitative and qualitative studies from a wide range of countries, this collection presents a new framework for exploring the two key social challenges of our times – insecurity and inequality – together.

Product details

• Assisted by: Laust Lund Elbek (Editor), Peter Starke (Editor), Starke Peter (Editor), Georg Wenzelburger (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032611259
• ISBN: 978-1-03-261125-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Weight: 371 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Politics & government, Social welfare & social services, Social discrimination & inequality, Regional Studies, Social welfare and social services, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice