Unequal Security: Welfare, Crime and Social Inequality [Hardcover]

1. Introduction: Unequal Security: Why It Matters and How to Study It?2. Mapping unequal security across rich OECD countries?3. Diverging employment trajectories: occupational differences in unemployment risk and fear of crime?4. The prison security fallacy: How the everyday use of force produces unequal security?5. Insecure in High Security - Health precarity among Women in Norwegian Prisons?6. Framing, Inequality, and the Politics of Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic?7. Economic Informality and Security Policy Preferences in Mexico and Latin America?8. The two faces of liberalism. Liberal parties and penal-welfare turns in Britain and Germany, 1906 to 2016?9. Economic Insecurity, Welfare Retrenchment and Heroin Use between the 1970s and 2000: a multi-cohort analysis?10. Conclusion

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Bringing together disciplines such as political science, criminology, sociology, and anthropology and combining quantitative and qualitative studies from a wide range of countries, this collection presents a new framework for exploring the two key social challenges of our times  insecurity and inequality  together.

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?Unequal Security is a subtle, sophisticated treatment of a deep problem troubling modern societies. Beginning with a wide-ranging review of the security literature(s) and an in-depth treatment of conceptual issues, the editors offer a new framework for the analysis of security and insecurity in a variety of domains including economic insecurity, fear of crime, prisons, and public health. Throughout the collection  which features diverse, original studies by a group of first rate scholars  the focus is on the interplay between insecurity al#¹