The sparking discipline of criminology - - ebook

Safety and security are often seen in light of crime, disorder and fear. This fuels a political and social climate obsessed with a negative logic of 'fighting' criminals, 'controlling' populations, and 'excluding' unwanted others. Other, more positive or constitutive, discourses and practices about safety and security have fallen out of fashion. But what alternatives to contemporary processes of securitization and criminalization can be imagined when starting from a positive critique of security? Which theoretical and empirical resources support and inspire more positive notions of security? This multidisciplinary volume brings together a team of renowned scholars to stress that security also includes notions of care, trust and belonging. By taking the concept of security beyond traditional criminal law, the scholars in this volume bring cuttingedge theoretical and empirical analyses on the importance of human connectedness, community building and feelings of solidarity as a way to

Digital Criminology: Crime and Justice in Digital Society is an interdisciplinary scholarly investigation extending beyond traditional topics of cybercrime, policing, and the law to consider the implications of digital society for public engagement with crime and justice movements.

In westerse samenlevingen heerst een overvloed aan voedsel, drank, consumptieartikelen, belevenissen en keuzemogelijkheden. Paradoxaal genoeg vraagt dat meer dan ooit om discipline. En juist daarvoor zijn we huiverig. We willen vrij en ongehoorzaam kunnen zijn. In Discipline beschrijft filosoof Marli Huijer de gevolgen van de in de jaren zestig ingezette de-disciplinering. Wij moeten opnieuw nadenken over die verfoeide discipline. Een zoektocht naar een keurslijf dat onze vrijheid juist vergroot. Marli Huijer is bijzonder hoogleraar filosofie aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam en lector aan de Haagse Hogeschool. In 2011 publiceerde zij Ritme.