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Book Review Of: Crime In An Insecure World: By Richard Ericson, Allen Gnanam
Book Review Of: Crime In An Insecure World: By Richard Ericson, Allen Gnanam
Allen Gnanam
Crime in an Insecure World written by Richard Ericson, depicts western society as a neo-liberal state, that has an impulsive tendency to criminalizes all sources of harm through precautionary logic, risk assessment, surveillance measures, and counter law I and II, due to the dominant culture of impulsive criminalization that produces uncertainty. Counter Law, precautionary logical, risk assessment, and uncertainty are the 4 major concepts discussed by Ericson, and these concepts will be analyzed and interpreted during this book review.