Security Society

Francis Dodsworth is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Kingston University London, UK. Before joining Kingston in 2014 he spent ten years as a research fellow in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), based at the Open University. His worked has been focused on the fields of history and historical sociology, particularly the history of crime, policing and social control, but he has also written about the history of architecture and the built environment, and religious cultures past and present. His work has interrogated the relationship between government and self-government and particularly their intersection with questions of gender and identity.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Masterless Men: Patriarchy Challenged, c. 1570-1670.- 3. Patricians and the Rule of Law, c. 1670-1740.- 4. Fratriarchy and the Police Idea, c. 1740-1800.- 5. Institutionalising Fratriarchy, c. 1800-1900.- 6. Protection Beyond Patriarchy, c. 1900-2000.- 7. Conclusion: Genealogies of Security.