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Risk and Morality
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$61.00
ISBN: 9780802085634
Pub Date: July 2003
Collectively, the contributors explain why risk is such a key aspect of Western culture, and demonstrate that new regimes for risk management are transforming social integration, value-based reasoning and morality.
Uncertain Business
Risk, Insurance, and the Limits of Knowledge
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$53.00
ISBN: 9780802085627
Pub Date: April 2004
Insurers' perceptions and decisions about uncertainty – with potential for windfall profits as well as catastrophic losses – create crises in insurance availability and provoke new forms of inequality and exclusion. Hence, while the insurance industry is a central bulwark against uncertainty, insurers also play a key role in fostering it.
The Ordering of Justice
A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process
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$45.95
ISBN: 9780802064639
Pub Date: January 1982
From the point of his arrest through to the final disposition of his case, the authors follow the accused as he proceeds through the criminal control system. They draw a picture of one who is dependent upon the orders and decisions of the police, crown attorney, defence lawyer, and judge and not a defendant with significant autonomy.
The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility
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$64.00
ISBN: 9780802048783
Pub Date: March 2006
This collection challenges conventional wisdom and advances new theoretical approaches through a series of studies of surveillance in policing, the military, commercial enterprises, mass media, and health sciences.
Governing Modern Societies
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$47.95
ISBN: 9780802081988
Pub Date: February 2000
The essays collected in Governing Modern Societies arose from a lecture series of the same name held at Green College, University of British Columbia, in 1997 and 1998.
Reproducing Order
A Study of Police Patrol Work
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$45.95
ISBN: 9780802064752
Pub Date: March 1982
The author's conclusions about the nature of policing and his discussion of the implications of proposals for reform of police, will generate better-informed deliberation in political and public decision-making and in the general study of sociological theory.
Policing the Risk Society
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$123.00
ISBN: 9781442678590
Pub Date: May 1997
Ericson and Haggerty contend that the police have become information brokers to institutions such as insurance companies and health and welfare organizations that operate based on a knowledge of risk.

Risk and Morality
$61.00
ISBN: 9780802085634
Pub Date: July 2003
Collectively, the contributors explain why risk is such a key aspect of Western culture, and demonstrate that new regimes for risk management are transforming social integration, value-based reasoning and morality.
Uncertain Business
Risk, Insurance, and the Limits of Knowledge
$53.00
ISBN: 9780802085627
Pub Date: April 2004
The Ordering of Justice
A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process
$45.95
ISBN: 9780802064639
Pub Date: January 1982
From the point of his arrest through to the final disposition of his case, the authors follow the accused as he proceeds through the criminal control system. They draw a picture of one who is dependent upon the orders and decisions of the police, crown attorney, defence lawyer, and judge and not a defendant with significant autonomy.
The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility
$64.00
ISBN: 9780802048783
Pub Date: March 2006
This collection challenges conventional wisdom and advances new theoretical approaches through a series of studies of surveillance in policing, the military, commercial enterprises, mass media, and health sciences.
Governing Modern Societies
$47.95
ISBN: 9780802081988
Pub Date: February 2000
The essays collected in Governing Modern Societies arose from a lecture series of the same name held at Green College, University of British Columbia, in 1997 and 1998.
Reproducing Order
A Study of Police Patrol Work
$45.95
ISBN: 9780802064752
Pub Date: March 1982
The author's conclusions about the nature of policing and his discussion of the implications of proposals for reform of police, will generate better-informed deliberation in political and public decision-making and in the general study of sociological theory.
Policing the Risk Society
$123.00
ISBN: 9781442678590
Pub Date: May 1997
Ericson and Haggerty contend that the police have become information brokers to institutions such as insurance companies and health and welfare organizations that operate based on a knowledge of risk.