“…While the definitions and implicit meanings of difference change over time and place, deep-seated fears lead people, institutions, and armies to act in violence as a matter of their own security against the unknown Other that is too close for comfort. For those of us seeking to understand where criminalization and brute violence come from, we must look to the ''security gaze,'' to the ''moral panics'' that serve to rationalize states of exception and presumptively criminalize whole peoples (Hall et al, 1978;Gilmore, 2002;Ferradás, 2004). To the extent that security is also read as ''the ability to protect oneself'' (Burrell, 2010, 96), it begs the questions: Whose security is at stake when we speak about security (Mutimer, 1999, 418)?…”