Reconstructing Leviathan: Emerging contours of the security state

Hallsworth, Simon; Lea, John

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“…In this respect, there is some similarity here between this analysis and that offered by Hallsworth and Lea (2011). However, the processes underpinning this symmetrical and symbiotic relationship are, as Wacquant (2009) suggests, doubly political.…”

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Fractured Lives, Splintered Knowledge: Making Criminological Sense of the January, 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris

Walklate

Mythen

2016

Crit Crim

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Cottee (Br J Criminol 54(6):981-1001, 2014) makes the case that criminology has much to contribute to an understanding of theistic violence. However the 'hubris of positivism' (Young in The criminological imagination, Polity, Cambridge, 2011) curtails the criminological imagination and this is particularly evident in the debates that permeate contemporary understandings of religious extremism and radicalisation. Using the terrorist attacks in France 2015 as a touchstone, this paper explores the current state of criminological engagement with these issues. First a synopsis of orthodox current criminological talk about religious extremism and violent crime is considered. Next a critical analysis of the events in Paris based around what is 'known' about them is offered in the light of this knowledge. Finally, drawing on the work of Young (2011) the implications of this analysis for criminology are considered resulting in a refinement of the biases identified by Cottee (2014).

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Fractured Lives, Splintered Knowledge: Making Criminological Sense of the January, 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris

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2016

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“…There is much research on the state or national security apparatus (for example, Hallsworth and Lea, 2011), but little reflection on corporate security within bureaucracies of the various levels of government, and even less empirical study of their actual features, strategies and practices. A main point stemming from our typology discussed below is that what is corporate is not necessarily private.…”

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Multiplicities of corporate security: Identifying emerging types, trends and issues

Lippert

Walby

Steckle

2013

Secur J

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This article explores types and topics in corporate security work by developing a new typology along five dimensions -public/private, in/outsource, oversight, work type, and certification/training and personnel selection. Using this typology reveals emerging trends (such as decommodification or insourcing), challenges (such as accountability and oversight) and benefits (a greater range of legal and other powers) related to corporate security. To illustrate this typology's value, as well as the limits of existing literature, the article considers findings from research on a nascent public, in-house, government form of corporate security: municipal government corporate security offices in Canada. We conclude by discussing decommodification or insourcing as well as expert certification and training and what these trends mean for scholarly debate about corporate security.

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“…Nonetheless, since the 1980s, the responsibility for welfare has shifted from the commonwealth to the individual, and supply-side tax regimes have ascended. This neoliberal counter-revolution ushered into the world a new kind of state -the security state (Hallsworth and Lea, 2011) -and a new kind of society: the control society (Deleuze 1992).…”

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“…In other words, a quantitative rise in surplus populations is facilitating a qualitative change in the biopolitical systems deployed by the state to manage them (Shaw and Akhter, 2014). The passage from a (Keynesian) welfare state to a (neoliberal) security state (Hallsworth and Lea, 2011) has created more capital-intensive forms of warfare and policing. This includes an armada of security apparatuses, from biometrics and CCTV to "pre-emptive" or "predictive" policing in forces such as the Los Angeles Police Department or the Metropolitan Police in the UK.…”

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The Urbanization of drone warfare: policing surplus populations in the dronepolis

Shaw

2016

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. This paper explores the urbanization of drone warfare and the securitization of the "surplus population". Defined as a bloc of humanity rendered as structurally unnecessary to a capital-intensive economy, the surplus population is an emerging target for the post-welfare security state. If we now live in an age of a permanent conflict with uncertain geographies, then it is at least partly fueled by this endemic crisis at the heart of the capitalist world system. Of key significance is the contradictory nature of the surplus population. The "security threat" generated by replacing masses of workers with nonhumans is increasingly managed by policing humans with robots, drones, and other apparatuses. In other words, the surplus population is both the outcome and target of contemporary capitalist technics. The emerging "dronification of state violence" across a post-9/11 battlespace has seen police drones deployed to the urban spaces of cities in Europe and North America. The drone, with its ability to swarm in the streets of densely packed urban environments, crystallizes a more intimate and invasive form of state power. The project of an atmospheric, dronified form of policing not only embodies the technologization of state security but also entrenches the logic of a permanent, urbanized manhunt. The paper concludes by discussing the rise of the dronepolis: the city of the drone.

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Reconstructing Leviathan: Emerging contours of the security state

Cited by 106 publications

References 38 publications

Fractured Lives, Splintered Knowledge: Making Criminological Sense of the January, 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris

Fractured Lives, Splintered Knowledge: Making Criminological Sense of the January, 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris

Multiplicities of corporate security: Identifying emerging types, trends and issues

The Urbanization of drone warfare: policing surplus populations in the dronepolis

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