Risk Books

New and Published Books

1. Risk and the Law

   Edited by Gordon Woodman, Diethelm Klippel

   Natural and man-made risks have long been recognised as vital conditioning factors in the formation of social institutions and the conduct of social life. In this volume internationally recognised experts examine in detail the implications in practice of the modern concept of risk in particular...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. Security Games

   Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

   Edited by Colin Bennett, Kevin Haggerty

   Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "...

   Published December 31st 2011 by Routledge
3. Globalization in Crisis

   Edited by Barry Gills

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate. Written by some of the world’s leading international...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
4. Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries

   New Analytical Approaches

   Edited by Wim Naude, Amelia Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray

   In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty. New approaches in development economics have in recent years started from the premise...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance

   A Foucauldian Critique

   By Antoinette Rouvroy

   Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-called genetic revolution. Looking at the knowledge-power relations in the post-genomic era and addressing the pressing issues of genetic privacy and discrimination...

   Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
6. Young People and Sexual Exploitation

   'It's Not Hidden, You Just Aren't Looking'

   By Jenny J. Pearce

   Work with sexually exploited young people can be rewarding yet difficult. They can be hard to access, often presenting challenging behaviour. Sometimes it is painful to hear their life stories, whether these include abuse through the Internet or exploitation experienced through having been...

   Published September 6th 2009 by Routledge
7. Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life

   By Iain Wilkinson

   Series: The New Sociology

   It is now sociological common sense to declare that, in everyday life, large numbers of people approach matters of work, family life, trust and friendship with 'risk' constantly in mind. This book, provides an introductory overview and critical assessment of this phenomenon. Iain Wilkinson outlines...

   Published July 2nd 2009 by Routledge
8. Risk and Technological Culture

   Towards a Sociology of Virulence

   By Joost Van Loon

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories of risk from Ulrich Becks foundational work to that of his contemporaries such as Anthony Giddens...

   Published June 26th 2002 by Routledge