ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the implication of shifts in the way in which security and justice are being conceived. It argues that the emergence of a logic of risk is refiguring the way in which punishment is being used as a tactic of governance. The chapter considers the implications of shifts in the governance of security for the use of punishment as a regulatory strategy. A central feature of governance within the contexts is a mentality of risk reduction. While corporate domains are central to the complex network of governance that has emerged alongside state governments, the ‘private governments’ and the ‘bubbles of governance’ they create are not limited to business settings narrowly conceived. The logic of risk governance dominates the contractual spaces. In developing the partnerships, states typically seek to take advantage of the logic and institutions of non-state sites of governance and to direct their operations in a manner that enables them to ‘rule at a distance’.
