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Pervasive Prevention - 9780754675648

Un libro in lingua di Tamar Pitch edito da Ashgate Pub Co, 2010

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`The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society, the insecure society. This book shows the connections and differences, while at the same time providing a gender reading of the ways in which, through precautionary measures, social control manifests itself.

The prevention imperative, today diffuse and pervasive, symbolizes both a self-defining doctrine and justification of a means of repression, segregation, and exclusion. From bodies to daily life to preventative war, the book investigates the effects of this imperative for social control, its connection with neo-liberal hegemonic ideology, and the centrality in it and in its dealings with women and the feminine.

This fascinating analysis dissects the numerous components of the prevention imperative in contemporary societies, linking new forms of social control with hegemonic neo-liberal ideology. The gendered reading offered adds originality to this thought-provoking, superb, book. Vincenzo Ruggiero, Middlesex University, UK

In Pervasive Prevention, Tamar Pitch, one of Europe's leading legal theorists, has produced the book that many of us have been thirsting for: a feminist analysis of the security society. With her usual clarity, drollery, and perspicacity, Pitch provides a gendered analysis of the new forms of social control that pervade our lives. Nicole Rafter, Northeastern University, USA

Are the features of post-modern social control - risk, security, management, segregation, surveillance `new'? And should we worry about them? Tamar Pitch has written a dense, thoughtful and stimulating book that shows clearly how the `imperative to prevent' leads to social policies far less benign than the folk wisdom of `prevention is better than cure'. Her feminist reading of these features and her creative application of critical theory make this a distinctive and important contribution. Stanley Cohen, London School of Economics, UK

Advances in Criminology Series Editor: David Nelken

This series seeks to publish original cutting-edge contributions to the fields of criminology, criminal justice and penology. Volumes published so far include discussions of Foucault and `governmentality'; critical criminology; victims and criminal justice; corporate crime; comparative criminology and women's prisons.

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