ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the sub sequent chapters of this book. The book proposes an innovative approach to security governance, through a serious analysis of the balance of the costs and benefits, and also by highlighting the ignored insecurities. It analyses the frame of the rise of postmodern security governance and the proliferation of ignored insecurities and their victims. The book proposes the adoption of the security quadrate as a means of categorizing ignored securities. It analyses the governance of crime in the risk society as a way of moving from designing out crime to built-in resilience. The book discusses resilience discourses, the ingenuity or ambiguity or abuse that exists between the various interpretations, and the neoliberal myth of self-contained individualism. It describes the case of the decriminalization of business law in France. The book analyses the case of the continuity and change in the governance of urban security in Milan.
