Positive Criminology : Reflections on Care, Belonging and Security.

Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- A Critique of Security. Towards a Positive Turn in Criminology -- Theoretical Part -- Positive Security. A Theoretical Framework -- Introduction -- Social-biological discourse: human connectedness -- Anarchic discourse: local capacity building -- Religious discourse: a spiritual order -- A positive sense of security -- Concluding remarks -- Thinking about Sustainable Security.Metaphors, Paradoxes and Ironies -- Introduction -- Part I: security as metaphor -- Part II: sustainable security -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Growing Sanguine about the Weeds.Gardening and Security Revisited -- Introduction -- Rhizomatic meanings of security and care -- Preliminary observations on gardening and security -- Biopolitics and the gardening state -- Gardens and gardening revisited -- Towards a positive conception of security -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Power and Servility. An Experimentin the Ethics of Security and Counter-Security -- Introduction -- Contract, security and sentiment -- Self-enslavement: from Spinoza to Nietzsche -- From religious to secular security -- How possible is a counter-conduct of security? -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Security in Support of Safety and Community. Thoughts from New York -- Introduction -- Security and safety -- Importance of people and the local -- Security of and security for -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Empirical Part -- Your Friendly Gasoline Station.On Habitual Space -- Introduction -- Community and privacy -- Beyond Bourdieu's habitus -- Habit-making through socialisation -- Habitual space -- The mosque debate -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Not 'Fortress Los Angeles'. Design, and Management of Privately Owned Public Spaces in New York City -- Introduction -- Six indoor cross-block atria -- Diverse users and uses.

Management practices -- Reflections -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Fluid Security? Home, Care and Belonging in Prostitution Migration -- Introduction -- Contemporary discourse on prostitution migration -- Raced and gendered stories of care: renegotiating the 'proper' place -- Spaced stories of imagined security: being here, longing for there -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Afterthoughts. Security, Anti-Security, Positive Security -- Introduction -- Restraining security -- Resisting security -- Recovering security -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Notes on Contributors.

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 book 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 book's contributors present cutting edge theoretical and empirical analyses on the importance of human connectedness, community building, and feelings of solidarity as a way to resist hegemonic and negative meanings of security. The book will appeal to researchers in the fields of criminology, political science, sociology, philosophy, and security studies. Contents include: A Critique of Security - Towards a Positive Turn in Criminology * Positive Security - A Theoretical Framework * Thinking about Sustainable Security - Metaphors, Paradoxes, and Ironies * Growing Sanguine about the Weeds - Gardening and Security Revisited * Power and Servility - An Experiment in the Ethics of Security and Counter-Security * Security in Support of Safety and Community - Thoughts from New York * Your Friendly Gasoline Station - On Habitual Space * Not 'Fortress Los Angeles' - Design and Management of Privately Owned Public Spaces in New York City * Fluid Security? Home, Care, and Belonging in Prostitution Migration * Afterthoughts - Security, Anti-Security,

Positive Security.

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