Security Field - Crime Control, Power and Symbolic Capital

This book draws on new thinking in the social sciences on questions of crime, fear and security and contributes to the expanding interest on the sociology and criminology of security by offering a Bourdieusian approach to plural policing and the everyday political economy of security.

List of contents

1.The Security Field? An Introduction 2.From Plural Policing to the Security Field 3.The Theoretical and Empirical Challenge: Towards a Relational Approach 4.The Case in Context: Introduction to Crime, Policing and Security Governance in Ireland 5.'Everything's built on knowing each other' - The Construction of Safety in the Consumer City: Policing, Business and the Politics of Urban Marginality 6.Conversation as Security Capital: Community Safety and Local Security 7.Policy Networks and Security Networks: The Case of the Private Security Industry and the National Crime Prevention Office 8.The Security Field: Crime Control, Power, and Symbolic Capital

About the author

Matt Bowden is the Academic Lead at the Culture and Society Research Hub and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Technological University Dublin, Ireland.

Product details

• Authors: Matt Bowden, Bowden Matt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9780367547547
• ISBN: 978-0-367-54754-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Urban & municipal planning, Social issues & processes, Interdisciplinary studies, Politics and government, Legal aspects of criminology, Police & security services, Warfare and defence, Social and ethical issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Criminal justice law, Police and security services, Police law & police procedures, Criminology: legal aspects, Police law and police procedures, Urban communities / city life