CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ulrich Beck, Risk Society, Neoliberalism
8 Apr 2015
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Crime prevention and risk management: emphasis on managing your own risk. Ulrich beck and his book risk society (1986) Risk and risk management as essential features of modern society. He notices that an element of modern society is the emergence of new risk, and a concern with efforts to manage those risks. For him, the driving force behind all these risks that he was documenting was the advance in technology due to capitalism, and a form of technological activity that produced a series of risks and hazards for ex. Risks to do with environmental degradation, sars, global warming, terrorism, gmo"s. For him, part of being modern is the ability to manage risk: shift from danger to risk danger is an outside event that is uncertain and beyond our control. In contrast, risk is something that is controllable and defined in terms of specific probabilities using statistics, and can be therefore managed.
