ABSTRACT
In previous articles (de Lint, Virta and Deukmedjian 2007; de Lint 2008b), colleagues and I advanced the idea that security simulations are next generation to what had appeared as a policy modus for crime control; that is, of a crime policy that needed more than anything else to be seen to be done according to the contemporaneous culture of control (Garland 2000). We argued that security simulations are events that demonstrated competence in marshalling the optics of security even in the absence of a danger independent of the security control apparatus. As illustrated by the quote above, the policy question involves the fi nessing of uncertainty and risk and the attribution of terror as the absence of a controlled response within the coordination of a culture of control.
