The Security Society History, Patriarchy, Protection /

• Main Author: Dodsworth, Francis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management
• Subjects: Public safety.; Critical criminology.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Historical sociology.; History-Philosophy.; Law-History.; Crime Control and Security.; Critical Criminology.; Crime and Society.; Historical Sociology.; Philosophy of History.; Legal History.

This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the 'security society' that has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and social science more broadly. 'Security' has been argued to constitute a new mode of social ordering, displacing the 'disciplinary...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Masterless Men: Patriarchy Challenged, c. 1570-1670
• 3. Patricians and the Rule of Law, c. 1670-1740
• 4. Fratriarchy and the Police Idea, c. 1740-1800
• 5. Institutionalising Fratriarchy, c. 1800-1900
• 6. Protection Beyond Patriarchy, c. 1900-2000
• 7. Conclusion: Genealogies of Security.