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Security and Everyday Life

Security and Everyday Life

Bajc, Vida
de Lint, Willem

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology, Book 10

CriminologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415997682
ISBN13: 9780415997683
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

When everyday social situations and cultural phenomena come to be associated with a threat to security, security becomes a value which competes with other values - particularly the right to privacy and human rights. In this comparison, security appears as an obvious choice over the loss of some aspects of other values and is seen as a reasonable and worthwhile sacrifice because of what security promises to deliver. When the value of security is elevated to the top of the collective priorities, it becomes a meta-frame, a reference point in relation to which other aspects of social life are articulated and organized. With the tendency to treat a variety of social issues as security threats and the public's growing acceptance of surveillance as an inevitable form of social control, the security meta-frame rises to the level of a dominant organizing principle in such a way that it shapes the parameters and the conditions of daily living.

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