Securitization of Society

Marc Schuilenburg is Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, at VU University Amsterdam. In 2014 he was awarded the triennial Willem Nagel Prize by the Dutch Society of Criminology for his book Orde in veiligheid: Een dynamisch perspectief (Order in Security: A Dynamic Perspective).David Garland is Professor of Sociology and Law at New York University. He is the author of Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition.

"The Securitization of Society is a thoughtful and provocative work that announces Marc Schuilenburg as an insightful, and much-needed, new theoretical voice in the study of security. If you want to make sense of the myriad systems of surveillance and hybrid public-private security assemblages that dominate todays urban landscape, this is a must-read." - Keith Hayward,co-author of Cultural Criminology: An Invitation "Schuilenburg has brilliantly charted the slips that occur twixt the cup of security theory and the lip of day-to-day life. Combining insights from classic and contemporary social theory with the fruits of ethnographic exploration, he shows that things are never as simple as they seem. Legal scholars long ago realized the need to study both law in theory and law in action. Schuilenburg has laid the foundations for understanding securitization in action." - Michael Tonry,author of Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma "The Securitization of Society delivers a series of insightsabout the dynamic and unstable elements of the security world, about the difficulties of inter-agency action, about the fragility of even the most powerful security assemblagesthat, having now been stated, will quickly become our new common sense." - David Garland,from the Introduction "Amajor contribution to the growing literature on & hybrid security . . . anchor[s] empirical research in some substantive theoretical footing." (Human Rights Review)