The development of neoliberal politics has substantially affected the development of fire prevention in Australia. The principal impact has been on the shift from prescriptive regulation to performance-based regulation, ostensibly on the grounds that the latter promotes innovation and cost...

The genealogy of risk is closely linked with the development of insurance, which in turn is linked to changes in the forms of political liberalism. This paper examines shifts in this triangular relationship from the early 19th century to the present, and argues that risk has changed its forms...

Risk has not been regarded positively in most social theory and critical criminology, especially in the light of Beck's 'risk society' thesis. This paper argues that such criticism is misplaced. Risk is an extremely variable governmental technology, and many of the targets of criticism are...

While crime prevention is taken to exemplify governance in the risk society , it may represent a retarded example of risk-based urban security. Crime prevention was unaffected by risk-based prevention characteristic of much nineteenth-century government of this domain. The development of...

The central place occupied by actuarial calculation in insurance is usually understood as resulting from the process of bringing the laws of large numbers to bear on archival data in terms of an 'insurance imaginary'. However, little attention is paid to the political and broader governmental...

Neoliberalism has played a prominent role in criminological accounts of criminal justice and penal policy. Neoliberalism's place ranges from the core of neo-Marxist visions of a systematic global crime control program, through its place as one element in a punitive Anglophone ‘culture of...

The growth of the governmentality literature represents a significant development in current social theory. However, certain prominent and interlinked tendencies, which are associated with the place of politics as a subject and object of theoretical work, are queried. Most especially the...