Borders, mobility and technologies of control

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pickering, Sharon (Editor), Weber, Leanne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Criminology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.

Territorial borders are taking on a new significance, the implications of which are relatively unexplored within the discipline of criminology. This book presents the first systematic attempt to develop a critical criminology of the border and offers a unique treatment of the impact of globalisation...

Table of Contents:

• Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control
• The Shifting Frontiers of Migration Control
• Border Narratives
• Global Flows, Semi-permeable Borders and New Channels of Inequality
• Biometrics, Borders and the Ideal Suspect
• Borders, Belonging and Homeland (In)security
• Control, Protection and Negligence
• State Crime Beyond Borders
• The Gender of Control
• Law and Order on the Border in the Neo-colonial Antipodes
• De-territorialising Criminology.