ABSTRACT
This chapter draws from the aforementioned literature on urban public space security and emerging studies within the nascent sub-discipline of carceral geography, and examine their convergence on the issue of mega-event security planning in the global city. The chapter also seeks to highlight how lessons from the military-carceral security strategies deployed in London have been transferred to subsequent host cities. In the context of this chapter, engagement with the literatures on urban security and carceral geography helps illuminate the processes of Olympic securitisation and what this means for punitive security measures that are often rolled out before and during the event', and increasingly retained as a legacy in the post-event period. Indeed, Olympic security initiatives were grafted over a pre-existing security infrastructure, one which had evolved over many years due to the threat of Irish Republicanism and other forms of terrorism. Particularly notable here was the emphasis on military-carceral features of the overall Olympic security strategy.
