Crime and Risk

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It is into this muddy conceptual terrain that Pat O′Malley treks, unabashedly pairing ′crime′ and ′risk′ in the title of his book, and undertaking to untangle their ambiguous meanings and contradictory connections... O′Malley carefully demonstrates, risk and its relation to crime are not self-evident at all; they are defined differently by neo-conservatives and neo-liberals, by risk-takers and those who would govern them, and in turn attributed variously to individual decision making, social dysfunction, or the logic of the market. Once defined in a particular way, risky situations are then policed through particular forms of measurment that produce data sets and statistical predictions, all seeming to confirm that such risk is indeed a real and measurable phenomenon.Jeff FerrellTheoretical Criminology Pat O′Malley has produced an important book... In just four chapters, he offers a critically informed ′tour de force′ of the criminological embrace of risk... O′Malley′s book has provided a fertile breeding ground for pursuing questions such as these and challenging the powerful presence of the concept of risk within criminology.Sandra WalklateTheoretical Criminology In this remarkably short and readable volume, O′Malley delineates with precision what has been so productive about the largely dystopian pictures of risk-based crime governance, while identifying the complex shades of gray so often overlooked by others, and ultimately points to ′lines of flight′.Jonathan SimonTheoretical Criminology In his well-researched, balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Crime and Risk, Pat O′Malley takes on some of these big-picture questions about risk as they apply to the nature of modern day (personal and property) crime and crime policy. The starting point for this analysis is the idea that risk is a dynamic, fluid concept, not something that should be simply cast as perpetuating a ′culture of control′.Brandon C. Welsh Theoretical Criminology