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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.
