Governing risks

by O'Malley, Pat

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Title Statements

Full title :Governing risks / edited by Pat O'Malley.

Summary

The 19 papers in this collection explore issues raised by the concept of governing risk. The editor's approach to the topic deliberately de-centers the state, focusing attention on the ways in which social ordering of risk is effected by many agencies. The papers are presented in sections that look at risk as it relates to politics and inequality, private law and justice, criminal law and justice, uncertainty and economic life, and health and technology. Topics addressed include : the ideological effects of actuarial practices; private insurance, social insurance, and tort reform; management of sex offenders and the "New Penology"; insurance as a moral and political technology; and the role of psychiatry in regimes of control.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Aldershot, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiv, 575 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780754625070, 0754625079
oclc:ocn300399578
LC Classification:K235

1. Risks and rights in the history of American governments. -- 2. At risk in the welfare state. -- 3. Liberal governance and prenatal care : risk and regulation in pregnancy. -- 4. The ideological effects of actuarial practices. -- 5. Social change and the law of industrial accidents. -- 6. Private insurance, social insurance, and Tort reform : toward a new vision of compensation for illness and injury. -- 7. The new legal structure of risk control. -- 8. Tort, insurance and ideology. -- 9. Risk, power and crime prevention. -- 10. Managing the monstrous : sex offenders and the new penology. -- 11. Moral agent or actuarial subject : risk and Canadian women's imprisonment. -- 12. Public protection, "partnership" and risk penalty. -- 13. Uncertain subjects. Risks, liberalism and contract. -- 14. Business, state, and community : "responsible risks takers", new labour, and the governance of corporate business. -- 15. Calculations of risks : towards an understanding of insurance as a moral and political technology. -- 16. Speculations of contract, or how contract law stopped worrying and learned to love risk. -- 17. Governing risky individuals : the role of psychiatry in new regimes of …

Subjects

Actuariat Criminalité -- Prévention Droit et économie politique Gestion du risque -- Droit Law and economics Perception du risque Risk management -- Law and legislation Sociological jurisprudence Sociologie du risque Sociologie juridique