ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers contending theoretical and methodological prescriptions for future work in the field of governmentality and crime control. It provides a variety of examples of the type of research that is being completed by socio-legal scholars and criminologists who have begun to enter the field. The book explores pervasive development in criminal justice in the 1990s that can be more adequately understood by taking into account Michel Foucault's insights on governmentality – namely, community crime prevention. It also offers an analysis of the manner in which neo-liberal risk management thinking has begun to infuse programmes aimed at the 'government of drug-users' in Australia. The book addresses the topic of transnational policing and the marketization of insecurity. It analyses the geographical reordering of cities that can occur when competing discourses emerge around the issue of property ownership and property use rights.
