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Risk and Morality

Risk and Morality

Edited by Aaron Doyle and Richard V. Ericson

Price: $58.00

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

Uncertain Business

Risk, Insurance, and the Limits of Knowledge

by Aaron Doyle and Richard V. Ericson

Price: $50.00

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

The Ordering of Justice

A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process

by Patricia M. Baranek and Richard V. Ericson

Price: $42.95

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

The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility

Edited by Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson

Price: $61.00

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

Governing Modern Societies

by Richard V. Ericson and Nico Stehr

Price: $44.95

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

Reproducing Order

A Study of Police Patrol Work

by Richard V. Ericson

Price: $42.95

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

Policing the Risk Society

by Richard V. Ericson and Kevin D. Haggerty

Price: $117.00

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.

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